Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware)

Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware)
by Jonathan Kellerman

Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware)
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Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 034546527X
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Ballantine Books

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After the first fifty pages I reached for aspirin.On the second attempt I tossed it in the recycle bin.

Summary of Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware)

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.


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