Compulsion

an Alex Delaware novel

English language

Published Dec. 30, 2008 by Random House Large Print.

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978-0-375-43240-8
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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 …

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  • Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction
  • Psychologists -- Fiction
  • Large type books
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction