In Twisted, a 2005 Ballantine Mass Market edition, his heroine, Detective Petra Connor, deals with a lot of old issues.  Her life, well..sucks. Her boss treats her like an rookie, her lover is as illusive as a politician on the take, and the case she's working on is riddled with empty clues.  If she wanted to move forward, she couldn't.  A new assignment has her saddled to a nerdy grad-student who's gleamed onto a convoluted connection, via the computer, to an old case she doesn't have time to solve. Kellerman throws in every obstacle, thwarts every logical explanation, delves into the psyche of his heroes and villians and leaves you gasping.  

Twisted couldn't be anymore twisted.  Four kids killed in a Paradiso gang slaying; a serial killer who practices his devious acts only on June 28th.  Weary Petra and Isaac Gomez, the genuis student, put their heads together and uncover why sex and jealousy are always lethal weapons. Kellerman's lesson in this book might be that history repeats itself but you finish the book knowing more than expected about the hearts and minds of heroes, villians and victims.  His characters are flawed, lovely, full of vigor and self-loathing... what more can you ask from an engrossing tale of twisted logic.

Copyright ©2005, Wil Emerson