Alex Delaware · Book 22
Compulsion
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 337
- ISBN-13
- 9780375432408
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Compulsion" is Jonathan Kellerman's 22nd Alex Delaware novel, published 2008 at 337 pages -- part of a series built on dense, dialogue-driven plotting and a strong sense of Los Angeles geography and class stratification.
Its place in Alex Delaware
Compulsion is book 22 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows Obsession. It is followed by Bones. See the full Alex Delaware reading order.
Alex Delaware is a child psychologist in Los Angeles, semi-retired from private practice by burnout and a healthy trust fund, who keeps getting pulled back into consulting on cases -- almost always at the request of his closest friend, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis. Jonathan Kellerman, himself a clinical psychologist before he became a novelist, builds each book around the psychology of victims, witnesses and killers as much as the crime itself: cult dynamics, childhood trauma, family pathology and the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345465283
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780739307212
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780375432408