A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense -- they are, in fact, horrifying predictions.

Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world?

Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings -- before the madman predicts their own demise....

“[A] surprising and complex story of evil... stunningly dramatic.”
   PEOPLE (PAGE-TURNER OF THE WEEK)

“Unsettling and thrilling... Right from the start of Monster, Jonathan Kellerman does everything right.”
   THE BALTIMORE SUN

“Kellerman delivers... Get ready to sleep with the lights on.... Get ready to be horrified... and perversely intrigued.”
   ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

“Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller.”
   PEOPLE