Book Reviews of Compulsion (Alex Delaware, Bk 22)

Compulsion (Alex Delaware, Bk 22)
Compulsion - Alex Delaware, Bk 22
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
ISBN-13: 9780345465283
ISBN-10: 0345465288
Publication Date: 8/26/2008
Pages: 448
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 260 ratings
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Alex and Milo discover a weird chain of murders that seem to make no sense at all but there is some connection and they pound the pavement to find it. Great twist at the end. I enjoyed it immensely.
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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I had a little difficulty getting into this book for some reason but ended up enjoying it. Cop Milo and his friend psychologist Alex are trying to solve a mystery about murderers who drive luxury automobiles.
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Another excellent Alex Delaware story.
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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Another stunning work by the master of suspense. I'm afraid the author seems to be getting wordy, as if being paid by the word. The story line was right on and its impossible to put down.
  • Currently 0/5 Stars.
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I love the Alex and Milo books, found this one to be a little boring. Alex is back with Robin, Spike is gone to doggy heaven, they have a new pooch but not much about her, Robin or Rick. Two cases to solve but still not that interesting...was a disappointment to me.
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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This is another fast moving story in the series. There are the usual twists and turns as Alex and Milo search for the killer of a yung woman, a school teacher and a couple of womemn in a small town beauty store. What are the links between them. The killer is suitably creepy and there is a nice twist at the end when milo solves an old cold case.
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Great Alex Delaware book! I've read of of his and love them all.
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Another good Alex Delaware/Det. Milo book. My only criticism of this book is that I had a tendency to get lost in which character was which, etc. Otherwise there were still surprises, with a good ending. Love Milo's dry sense of humor!
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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Excellent love mysteries
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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I liked it. I like anything with Alex and Milo in it. I found that I guessed the "bad guy" but I think I've read too many of these books!
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Good read with great ending.
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired school teacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. The curious fact that all their killers drove luxury vehicles, coupled with a baffling lack of any apparent motive, is enough to warrant the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his frequent collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware. What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spiders outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of LA society to its desperate edges - on the trail of a killer who 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.
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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The characters were interesting, but, the story itself was a little confusing.
  • Currently 2/5 Stars.
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Let's put it this way. Jonathan is not the Kellerman I like to read. Alex Delaware is not a very likable hero and Jonathan Kellerman is a haughty writer.
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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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. The curious fact that all their killers drove luxury vehicles, coupled with a baffling lack of any apparent motive, is enough to warrant the attention of LAPD dective Milo Sturgis and his frequent collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.

What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spiders outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to its desperate edges-on the trail of a killer who proves to be a fleeting shapeshifter, defying indentification, leaving behind dazed witnesses and death-and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.
  • Currently 2/5 Stars.
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Very disappointed, I usually like this author but this one so boring I couldn't even finish it because by the time I had read half of it I was so bored it just wasn't interesting anymore.
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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Another great Alex Delaware book!!
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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I did enjoy this book... I hadn't read an Alex Delaware book in a while. However, it doesn't have as much about his patient work in this one... a lot of Milo, though! Enjoyable, but not riveting.