Evidence

Jonathan Kellerman

Alex Delaware is a clinical psychologist based in Los Angeles and one of his clients is the police department. Lt Milo Sturgis of the homicide department calls on Alex when the murder he is dealing with is ‘interesting’, that is to say, hard to solve. Alex and Milo are opposites in every way, Alex being lean and fit and happily married, and Milo overweight, homosexual and generally more likely to snarl than to smile.

The interplay of Milo’s down-to-earth killer instincts and Alex’s keen psychological insights as they work together on solving a convoluted crime is one of the many pleasures of the series. Another is Milo’s wry sense of humour; politicians, for example, are described as having “the attention span of gnats on crack”.