内容简介
Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkestside of a glittering city fuel #1 "New York Times" bestsellingauthor Jonathan Kellerman's brilliant storytelling. And no oneconducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modernSherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware. A tipsy youngwoman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inkyblack night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broaddaylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in asmall-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of crueltyand psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxuryvehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits,these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgisand his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolen sedan quicklyspirals outward in odd and unexpected directions, leading Delawareand Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A. society to itsdesperate edges; across the paths of commodities brokers andtransvestite hookers; and as far away as New York City, where thesearch thaws out a long-cold case and exposes a grotesque homicidalcrusade. The killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defyingidentification, leaving behind dazed witnesses and death-andcompelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderousmadness. "From the Trade Paperback edition."