Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel

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#aKellerman, Jonathan.

#aCompulsion :#ban Alex Delaware novel /#cJonathan Kellerman.

#aCamberwell, Vic. :#bMichael Joseph,#c2008.

#a337 p. ;#c23 cm.

#aAlex Delaware series#v22

#aA 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.

#aWomen#xCrimes against#vFiction.

#aDelaware, Alex (Fictitious character)#vFiction.

#aSturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)#vFiction.

#aWomen psychologists#vFiction.

#aDetectives#zCalifornia#zLos Angeles#vFiction.

#aMystery fiction.#2gsafd

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