Compulsion: an Alex Delaware novel
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"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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Serial murderers -- Fiction
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Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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9780345465276
9780375432408
9780739307236
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Grouping Title | compulsion |
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Last Indexed | 2024-05-20 22:21:26PM |
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Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction
Police -- Fiction
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Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Disguise -- Fiction
Large type books
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Mystery fiction
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Psychologists -- Fiction
Serial murderers -- Fiction
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Compulsion
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel / by Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion [an Alex Delaware novel] / Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel / Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel / by Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion : an Alex Delaware novel Jonathan Kellerman
Compulsion [an Alex Delaware novel] / Jonathan Kellerman
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Police
Psychologists
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Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)
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