[Alex Delaware 22] • Compulsion
- Authors
- Kellerman, Jonathon
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Tags
- police , mystery & detective , thriller , los angeles (calif.) , suspense , mystery fiction , 26newbie , general , psychological , mystery , police procedural , sturgis; milo (fictitious character) , fiction , police - california - los angeles , psychologists , delaware; alex (fictitious character)
- ISBN
- 9780345465283
- Date
- 2008-08-26T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.22 MB
- Lang
- en
Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 *New York Times* bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman's brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware.
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.
What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spirals outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate edges; across the paths of commodities brokers and transvestite hookers; and as far away as New York City, where the search thaws out a long-cold case and exposes a grotesque homicidal crusade. The killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification, leaving behind dazed witnesses and death-and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.