Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Thriller

by JonathanKellerman (Author)

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  2008

  $3.25

  Stranded in her broken down car on a dark and deserted mountain pass high above LA, Katrina Shonsky is relieved when a shiny new Bentley stops and the female driver offers her a welcome lift. So relieved, in fact, she falls asleep, and is oblivious when the big car makes a sudden turn onto an obscure road and heads for a cold, dark place... Days later Detective Milo Sturgis and his psychologist friend Alex Delaware are called upon to investigate a strange crime. A new Bentley, stolen from outside its owner's house in the exclusive area of Brentwood, has been returned completely undamaged. Except for a small bloodstain on the driver's seat... And it's this small drop of blood that leads the pair back in time - to a decade-old triple slaying and the long-ago disappearance of a couple in New York City ...

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  A young woman who disappeared into the inky black night... A retired schoolteacher stabbed to death in broad daylight...Two women butchered in a small-town beauty parlor...The three baffling murder cases are linked only by a perplexing lack of motive, then LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre `crime'. A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. This miniscule clue is enough to set the pair on a hunt for a multiple killer, from the well-heeled centre of LA society to its desperate edges, even as far as New York where their search thaws out a long-cold case. The killer, however, proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification - and to unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to confront the true face of murderous compulsion...

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $3.25

  A young woman who disappeared into the inky black night...A retired schoolteacher stabbed to death in broad daylight...Two women butchered in a small-town beauty parlour...Three baffling murder cases, linked only by a perplexing lack of motive...Until, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are called to the scene of a bizarre 'crime'. A stolen car has been anonymously returned to its owner, undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. This minuscule clue is enough to set the pair on a hunt for a multiple killer, from the well-heeled centre of LA society to its desperate edges, even as far as New York where their search thaws out a long-cold case. However, this killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification - and to unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to confront the true face of murderous compulsion...