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	• Compulsion (Alex Delaware, No. 22) Jonathan Kellerman Ballantine Books, 2008 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 85 reviews view larger image
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Not Bad..

This is my first Alex Delaware novel so I have nothing to compare to. I found the book a little slow to develop, but overall a good mystery. I liked the main characters & would read other Delaware novels if given the chance. The book got better as it got closer to the end & had a satisfying ending.

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Jonathan Kellerman is always good

This book may be the one I'm saving to read later, or it may be one of the ones I already read. I'm sure it's good even if it's the one I didn't read yet, because I like all Jonathan Kellerman's books. (I no longer like his wife Faye's books; too gory for my taste. But I'll always get Jonathan Kellerman's books.)

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Easy read with a happy ending!

If you are looking for a quick and easy read, Compulsion might be the book for you. This is a true whodunit featuring Kellerman's popular characters Alex Delaware (psychologist) and Milo Sturgis (LA PD). The plot is well developed with "clues" peppered throughout enabling astute readers to determine who the bad guy is before it is actually revealed. Although I liked the book, I have two complaints. First, the killer's motive for killing is a little weak. And, second, I didn't like the introduction of new characters right at the end of the book. There really wasn't any need for introducing new characters...Alex/Milo could have caught the bad guy in a different and more creative way. But, all-in-all, a pleasurable read.

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Kellerman Needs to Dump Alex Delaware (For A While) !

Having read several of the novels in this series, I have found them to become very rote. I think it would serve Mr. Kellerman well to maybe attempt a novel with Milo Sturgis, the gay detective in this series, as the lead character. I am sure JK could create a pretty interesting story around Milo who at this point in time is still one of the more interesting characters in this series. Specifically in terms of "Compulsion," a series of three murders (a young sales clerk, a retired teacher, and two hairdressers) takes place. Additionally a sub-plot exists whereas a young boy is missing. Of course, Alex and Milo bring to a close all of the incidences as they put together some far-fetched clues and then the story ends. This reader would sure like to see a story with Milo (and his life partner, Dr. Rick Silverman) in the lead, and maybe JK can send Alex on vacation for a while.

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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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