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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. 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.
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.
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Judy H. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
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.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
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.
Stephanie S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
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.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great Alex Delaware book! I've read of of his and love them all.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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