Books
February, 1996
At the beginning of The Web (Bantam) the pace is so leisurely that a reader could begin to wonder if Jonathan Kellerman has lost it. Not likely. His story about Dr. Alex Delaware's visit to a Micronesian island is drawn with such skilled ease that it seems churlish to mention that there's no real crime to grapple with until halfway through the book--just lots of ominous hints. But when Kellerman does spring the trap, the reader is ensnared in a web of intersecting story lines that have snuck up...