Alex Delaware: Compulsion

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The depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel a gripping tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman. Dr. Alex Delaware, a modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, leads a harrowing manhunt after a tipsy young woman seeking help vanishes on a desolate highway. A retired schoolteacher is brutally murdered in daylight, and two women are slaughtered in a small-town beauty parlor. These bizarre acts of violence are linked by the killer’s use of luxury vehicles and an unsettling lack of motive, drawing the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware. What starts with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen car spirals into a complex investigation, taking Delaware and Sturgis from the affluent heart of L.A. to its desperate fringes, intersecting with commodities brokers and transvestite hookers, and even reaching New York City. This search unearths a long-cold case and reveals a grotesque homicidal crusade. The elusive killer remains a shape-shifter, evading identification and leaving behind traumatized witnesses and death, compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.