# Compulsion

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- Book: [Compulsion](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-kellerman/compulsion) ([Compulsion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-kellerman/compulsion.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Kellerman](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-kellerman)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-197-3
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2009-08-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

One night a young woman disappears . . . In broad daylight a retired teacher is stabbed to death . . . In a small-town beauty parlor two women are butchered . . . Three baffling cases, linked only by a lack of motive until psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis stumble upon a clue. A stolen luxury car is found undamaged and unblemished - except for a tiny, solitary bloodstain. Soon they uncover other expensive cars 'borrowed' before a killing. Soon the pair are hunting for a multiple killer, from LA high society to its desperate slums, even to New York and a forgotten cold case. However the killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification. To unmask him, Alex and Milo will have to understand his murderous compulsion . . .