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.
