Title: Compulsion
Subtitle: an Alex Delaware novel
First published: 2008
Description: 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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Police, Milo Sturgis (Fictitious character), Fiction, Alex Delaware (Fictitious character), Psychologists, Thriller, Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2008-09-14, New York Times bestseller, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Delaware, alex (fictitious character), fiction, Sturgis, milo (fictitious character), fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Murder, Investigation, Missing children, Psychotherapists, fiction
Places: Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles
LC classification: PS3561.E3865 C64 2008b