Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware Novels) | 
|  | | | Title: | Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel (Alex Delaware Novels) | | Author: | Jonathan Kellerman | | Publisher: | Ballantine Books | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 25 March, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 034546527X / 9780345465276 | | List Price: | $27.00 | | You Save: | $9.18 | | Amazon Price: | $17.82 | |
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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 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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Customer Reviews:
• Trying To Finish!!! 29 April, 2008
I agree with the one and two star ratings..... I am barely 1/3rd through and can hardly read the rest. Plot seems disjointed, confusing. I'll probably attempt to finish but am very disappointed with this book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A169CVNB37Z31T
• The Party Girl Gets It Every Time! 20 April, 2008
I love Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels. They are chilling, deadly and suspenseful every time! But why is it that the victims are always sexy young party girls who just want to enjoy themselves?
Of course, I do understand that you can't have a serial killer without a victim, just like you can't have a dragon without a damsel in distress. But in most other genres, whether suspense, mystery, or medieval romance, the damsel is usually portrayed sympathetically, as a nice person.
For some reason, Jonathan Kellerman always makes his damsels seem no good, nasty, spoiled, selfish and weak. What has this fellow got against women, anyway? Alfred Hitchcock created the shower scene in PSYCHO, true. But in many of his movies, like THE LADY VANISHES and JAMAICA INN, the heroine is just as brave and intrepid as the hero.
I really liked Kat, the party girl in the first chapter. Yet I knew right away that she only had three pages to live. And I knew she'd be depicted as a mindless tramp. Exactly what is Jonathan Kellerman's problem with women? Why can't he create victims people can like?
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3JB0FTLVHKN4M
• Bad, Bad, Bad 28 April, 2008
Half way through this book, I wanted to scream, oh no, not another
interview. You've got to keep a scorecard of all the folks Milo
and Alex come into contact with, it's more like chewing up the
scenery from a bad movie. This story could have been told in 50
pages. I agree with another reviewer, time to move on from the
Deleware novels.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AHX09M92YCQC7
• Kellerman Does It Again 23 April, 2008
Only one thing links the disparate murders of an inebriated young woman on a lonely stretch of road, a retired schoolteacher killed in broad daylight and two women murdered in a small town, and luxury cars--not to mention other acts of evil.
Dr. Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis begin with an odd bloodstain in a stolen Bentley sedan which may or may not mean anything. Together they begin the hunt for an unidentifiable killer who works in madness--without any discernable motive. From LA to NYC, commodities brokers to transvestite hookers, a picture of directed lunacy emerges from the shadows and the twisted secrets.
There's a reason Kellerman is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Added to an intriguing plot and characters that are true, he uses his background as a clinical psychologist to take us into the mind of a killer--a mind so far beyond belief it must be real.
Compulsion brings us back to the Jonathan Kellerman we first fell in love with twenty years ago. This is a read well worth getting your hands on and settling in with.
Armchair Interviews says: Highly recommended.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21NVBFIEQWDSG
• Interesting Villain Develops Slowly In A Disjointed Police Procedural 02 May, 2008
Why do we like to read about monsters? By bringing them out of the dark, they become merely menacing . . . rather than terrifically frightening. That allows us to relax and feel better. The problem with the police procedural and crime novel genres is that the monsters are pretty predictable. As such, they don't satisfy.
Jonathan Kellerman manages to twist the usual psycho model enough to make Compulsion more interesting reading than the plot that shelters the unique character. The story could have been trimmed down by about 100 pages and the book would have been more entertaining. The police procedural element mostly detracts from the interesting criminal.
If you don't like reading about weird criminals, you will probably think this is a two-star book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1K1JW1C5CUSUZ
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