{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "***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.\r\n\r\nYet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world?\r\n\r\n**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. . . .*--Bk Cvr***"}, "title": "monster", "covers": [419236], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "THE GIANT KNEW Richard Nixion."}, "subject_places": ["Los Angeles", "California [United States of America]"], "first_publish_date": "1999", "subject_people": ["Milo Sturgis (Fictitious character)", "Alex Delaware (Fictitious character)"], "key": "/works/OL12729W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL22570A"}}], "subject_times": ["200"], "subjects": ["Jonathan Kellerman", "Alex Delaware", "Series", "#13", "Fiction", "Literature", "Novel", "Hardcover", "Paperback", "e-book", "Police", "Detective", "Crime", "Serial", "Murder", "Forecaster", "Forecasting", "Mystery", "Psychologists", "Psychopaths", "Psychological", "Thriller", "Suspense", "Violent", "Offenders", "Dangerously", "Mentally ill", "Detectives", "Serial murderers", "Serial murder investigation", "Milo Sturgis (Fictitious character)", "Serial murders", "Alex Delaware (Fictitious character)", "Mentally ill offenders", "Large type books", "New York Times reviewed", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Fiction, psychological", "Los angeles (calif.), fiction", "Delaware, alex (fictitious character), fiction", "Sturgis, milo (fictitious character), fiction"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/26/books/crime-922080.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "genres": ["/tags/OL174T", "/tags/OL166T", "/tags/OL175T", "/tags/OL180T"], "latest_revision": 23, "revision": 23, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-08T16:26:35.916464"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-19T11:00:44.047192"}}