Time Bomb (Alex Delaware series, Book 5): A tense and gripping psychological thriller [Paperback] Kellerman, Jonathan

A sniper fires into a schoolyard. No one is hit, but the trauma ripples through an elite Los Angeles prep school where privilege masks darker currents. Psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to counsel the shaken students, but what starts as crisis intervention becomes something far more sinister when one of the kids vanishes and a teacher turns up dead. Kellerman, a clinical psychologist himself, brings authentic insight to Delaware's work—the way fear lodges in young minds, how institutions protect their reputations over truth. The plot coils tight around questions of identity, radicalism, and the violence buried in seemingly safe spaces. This is the fifth in the Delaware series, and Kellerman's prose moves with procedural precision while never losing sight of the human wreckage. For fans of psychological crime fiction where the detective's insight matters as much as the evidence.