Billy Straight: A Novel by Jonathan
Kellerman
Billy Straight
Kellerman isnt just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, hes a prominent
child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight. The hero is a 12-year-old
runaway whose sharp mind and straitlaced moral sense make him fit to
survive the lurid jungles of Hollywood. One night hiding in Griffith Park,
Billy witnesses the butchering of Lisa Ramsey, the cokehead ex-wife of
Cart Ramsey, a crummy actor-golfer once busted for pummeling Lisa. Did
Cart knife Lisa, or was it his pathetic old football sidekick Greg Balch?
When O.J. was on trial, Kellerman said, This wouldnt make a good novel,
but some of Kellermans toughest critics say this funhouse-mirror version
of an O.J.-like case is his best, better than his famous Alex Delaware
series. Psychologist Dr. Delaware has a bit part here, but the heroine is
Detective Petra Connor, his distaff equivalent. Kellermans main strength is
his vivid invention of secondary characters and his skill at juggling
subplots. When Petras media-whore boss puts Billys police sketch in the
paper with a $25,000 reward, two marvelously sub-simian bounty hunters
join the chase: a vicious Russian ex-cop and the vile biker boyfriend of
Billys stoned-out, trailer-park mom. Like the kid hero of Russell Bankss
Rule of the Bone, Billy enriches his authors customary milieu by viewing it
from a new, low angle. The tale is more taut than Kellermans 1997
bestseller Survival of the Fittest and more riveting than the O.J. case--the
cops are smart and justice has a prayer. --Tim Appelo
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