Books Compulsion

Compulsion is an Alex Delaware novel where psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis investigate a series of seemingly motiveless and bizarre murders across Los Angeles. The cases—including the disappearance of a young woman, the stabbing of a retired teacher, and a double murder in a beauty parlor—are linked only by the killer's use of stolen luxury vehicles. The investigation leads them on a wide-ranging manhunt that uncovers a long-cold case in New York City and forces the duo to confront a perpetrator who is a "fleeting shape-shifter," defying easy identification and exhibiting murderous madness.