Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman.
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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- ISBN: 034546527X
- ISBN: 9780345465276
- ISBN: 9780345465283
- Physical Description: 337 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
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| Albemarle Main Library | FIC Kellerman (Text) | 31010000523508 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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