Compulsion
by Kellerman, Jonathan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New in As New dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 034546527X
- ISBN 13
- 9780345465276
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books. As New in As New dust jacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards with black spine imprinted in silver with title and author. Full number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 . 337 pages. An Alex Delaware Novel, No. 22. 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. The curious fact that all their killers drove luxury vehicles, coupled with a baffling lack of any apparent motive, is enough to warrant the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his frequent collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spiders outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate edges -- on the trail of a killer who 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. .
Synopsis
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.
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- Storbeck's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609358
- Title
- Compulsion
- Author
- Kellerman, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 034546527X
- ISBN 13
- 9780345465276
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, THRILLERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Thrillers;
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