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Billy Straight

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By Jonathan Kellerman

By Jonathan Kellerman

By Jonathan Kellerman

By Jonathan Kellerman

By Jonathan Kellerman
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By Jonathan Kellerman
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Mass Market Paperback $9.99

Jan 29, 2013 | ISBN 9780345540133

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Apr 01, 2003 | ISBN 9780345463678

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Feb 10, 2009 | 909 Minutes

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    About Billy Straight

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
     
    A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horrific memory of the savage violence, nor the pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. For wherever Billy turns—from Hollywood Boulevard to the boardwalks of Venice—he is haunted by the chuck, chuck sound of a knife sinking into flesh.
     
    “Taut, compelling . . . Everything a thriller ought to be. The writing is excellent. The plotting is superior. The characters ring true.”—USA Today
     
    As LAPD homicide detective Petra Connor desperately searches for the murderer, as the media swarms mercilessly around the story, the vicious madman stalks closer to his prey. Only Petra can save Billy. But it will take all her cunning to uncover a child lost in a fierce urban labyrinth—where a killer seems right at home.

    About Billy Straight

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
     
    A resourceful runaway alone in the wilds of Los Angeles, twelve-year-old Billy Straight suddenly witnesses a brutal stabbing in Griffith Park. Fleeing into the night, Billy cannot shake the horrific memory of the savage violence, nor the pursuit of a cold-blooded killer. For wherever Billy turns—from Hollywood Boulevard to the boardwalks of Venice—he is haunted by the chuck, chuck sound of a knife sinking into flesh.
     
    “Taut, compelling . . . Everything a thriller ought to be. The writing is excellent. The plotting is superior. The characters ring true.”—USA Today
     
    As LAPD homicide detective Petra Connor desperately searches for the murderer, as the media swarms mercilessly around the story, the vicious madman stalks closer to his prey. Only Petra can save Billy. But it will take all her cunning to uncover a child lost in a fierce urban labyrinth—where a killer seems right at home.

    BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman’s Guilt.

    About Billy Straight

    In this riveting, astute, high-tension thriller, the creator of psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware weaves a Dickensian tale of innocence, urban depravity, and the resilience of the human spirit, and brings to the page one of the most endearing and finely drawn characters in contemporary  fiction.
            
    Twelve-year-old Billy Straight–precocious, heartbreakingly perceptive, relentlessly moral–has fled the chaos and abuse of his life at home and is fighting to survive on L.A.’s meanest streets. All alone, Billy has fashioned a precarious existence for himself, using principled tricks to nourish his body and his mind. Late one night he watches from his hiding place as a man viciously butchers a woman. The victim turns out to be the ex-wife of a television celebrity with a history of domestic violence, and Billy becomes the center of terrifying attention–from the media, from violent bounty hunters, and from the murderer himself. As he runs for his life, relying on his native wit and instincts for survival, Billy is also tracked by a potential savior: Petra Connor, a tough, gifted, beautiful LAPD homicide detective with a past of her own.
            
    Breathtakingly paced, Billy Straight  brings to life one street kid’s efforts to survive in the face of unspeakable evil. Richly layered, emotionally compelling, and peopled by a vivid cast of supporting characters–including Alex Delaware himself in a strong cameo role–this gripping novel represents one of the century’s great story-tellers at the top of his form.

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    About Jonathan Kellerman

    Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True Detectives, and The Murderer’s Daughter. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son,… More about Jonathan Kellerman

    About Jonathan Kellerman

    Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True Detectives, and The Murderer’s Daughter. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son,… More about Jonathan Kellerman

    About Jonathan Kellerman

    Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True Detectives, and The Murderer’s Daughter. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son,… More about Jonathan Kellerman

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Jan 29, 2013 | 528 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780345540133

    Category: Suspense & Thriller

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Ballantine Books
    Apr 01, 2003 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780345463678

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 10, 2009 | 909 Minutes | ISBN 9780307576712

    Praise

    “Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller. . . . The writing is vivid, the suspense sustained, and [he] has arranged one final, exquisitely surprising plot twist to confound the complacent reader.”—People (Book of the Week)
     
    “Riveting . . . nobody evokes Los Angeles better than Jonathan Kellerman.”—Los Angeles Times

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