# 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
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4190-619-5
- Published: 2008-07-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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... 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 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. 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...