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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Containing all the minutia fans like me have come to enjoy “Compulsion” by Jonathan Kellerman is another excellent chapter in his Child Psychologist Alex Delaware series. Mr. Kellerman’s writing style is crisp and clean, the banter between Alex and Milo stimulating and the case itself bizarre and thrilling. As usual, the relationship between Alex and long-time on again off again live-in girlfriend Robin is stilted and truly seems to go nowhere. And while the ending is a bit campy and cliché Mr. Kellerman entertains and I expect to pick up the next novel soon enough. (  ) BruderBane | Jul 10, 2009 |  Alex Delaware, psychologist helps Milo Sturgis, LA homicide detective solve serial cases from a cross-dressing murderer. ( ) FMRox | Mar 9, 2009 | The early Alex Delaware novels were absolutely fabulous, meaty, gritty, great plots - lately Kellerman seems to have lost the knack. This was a silly, convoluted plot, and I only stuck with it to find out whodunit, how and why. The best part of the book was the thrifty, humorous exchanges between Milo and Alex. I was given this book, thank goodness; I might have asked for my money back if I'd shelled out hard-won cash. I wish I had the time and energy reread the Delaware books from the beginning. I think it's time for Kellerman to get himself another protagonist, he's young enough and has enough writing-years ahead of him. Let's concentrate on - say, Petra for instance. (  ) thebookbabe | Feb 28, 2009 | Another solid Kellerman thriller. I really enjoy the narrator of the audiobooks - he does great voices for each character. I especially enjoy his voice for Milo Sturgis - sounds exactly as I imagine Milo to sound. (  ) jenspeaks | Feb 27, 2009 | I used to really like Jonathan Kellerman's books. I'll probably never forget Silent Partner, which creeped me out and fascinated me as a teenager. In Compulsion, Alex Delaware, is really boring and stiff. He seemed so irrelevant to the plot of this "mystery." The story starts with the gruesome stabbing of a retired teacher in a nice neighborhood, in full view of a neighbor. Delaware and his old friend, LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis, figure out who dunnit really early in the book, so it's more like they're chasing the guy as he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. Milo is a far more interesting character, and I think Kellerman should consider writing from his perspective. The shrink plus cop buddy formula used to work pretty well, but only when Dr. Delaware actually did some in-person analysis of people instead of vaguely diagnosing sociopathy from afar, as he did here. There was really very little psychology involoved in the story. Maybe the author is just getting stale, but this book was pretty dang boring. I considered not finishing it, but decided I had nothing better to do on my sickbed. Don't waste your time. (  ) haloolah | Dec 5, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 034546527X, Hardcover)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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