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1) Compulsion
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Alex Delaware novels volume 22
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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. Now Delaware and Sturgis must track down the killer.
2) Rage
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Alex Delaware novels volume 19
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Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need to talk once again with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Or has...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 38
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"Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She's the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome,...
4) A cold heart
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Alex Delaware novels volume 17
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Juliet Kipper, a gifted painter, is strangled in the LA gallery where her first solo show has opened to critical acclaim, and Milo Sturgis takes on the murder investigation as a favour to an old friend. He consults Alex Delaware, who, researching parallels with other deaths, looks for artists killed when on the verge of a breakthrough or comeback. And he finds two others. The investigation points to a gruesome, sadistic pattern of death, taking Milo...
5) Breakdown
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Alex Delaware novels volume 31
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When a well-known TV actress turns up dead without a scratch on her, psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware calls in police lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help him crack the case. When the body of a second actress turns up with the same mysterious cause of death, Delaware and Sturgis start to wonder - is this a copycat case or a coincidence?
6) Victims
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Alex Delaware novels volume 27
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Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But...
7) Evidence
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Alex Delaware novels volume 24
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Sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate a lovers' midnight romp in a construction site gone wrong. A man and a woman have been murdered, bludgeoned to death during their intimate act; and as Delaware and Sturgis dig deeper into the case, they find themselves in the midst of high society's secretive world of deception and debauchery.
8) Therapy
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Alex Delaware novels volume 18
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The brutal killings of a young couple--the troubled Gavin Quick and an unidentified female victim impaled by a metal spike--draws LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware into a suspenseful search for a cold-blooded killer and into a confrontation with a popular celebrity psychologist with a penchant for privacy.
9) The clinic
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Alex Delaware novels volume 11
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When psychology professor, Hope Devane is found stabbed to death, her life is unraveled to reveal hidden secrets that lead to her demise.
10) Monster: a novel
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Alex Delaware novels volume 13
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An actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. A psychologist is murdered and mutilated in a similar way. A nonfunctional psychotic, locked in an asylum, has predicted both murders leaving Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis to wonder if the inmate has an outside accomplice.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 14
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Someone has murdered euthanasia champion Dr. Eldon Mate - a self-styled Dr. Death responsible for scores of assisted suicides. In a burst of bloody irony, the killer chooses to dispatch the doctor in the back of his own suicide van, hooking Mate up to the killing apparatus dubbed the "humanitron" - and adding some butchering touches of his own. The case is assigned to veteran LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, who turns, once again, to his friend...
12) The murder book
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Alex Delaware novels volume 16
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Psychologist Alex Delaware receives a mysterious book on his doorstep, a beautifully bound volume that contains archival-quality photographs of murder victims, arranged in sequence by an unseen but meticulous hand. This is the Murder Book, a tantalizing mystery, but a record of terrible, brutal death. When his old friend Detective Milo Sturgis realizes that he can identify one of the victims, the trail goes hot, but in the process, both Sturgis and...
13) Bones
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Alex Delaware novels volume 23
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When human bones are found scattered throughout L.A., Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware team up to track a ruthless and bizarre killer.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 15
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When the mother of a former patient calls and asks for Psychologist Alex Delaware's help, he can't turn her down. He couldn't help Lauren Teague when she was alive, but something about his failure with the beautiful, sullen teenager who grew up to be a high-priced call girl won't let him walk away after her bullet-ridden body turns up in an L.A. dumpster. When she wasn't turning tricks, she was a straight-A student; despite his detective pal Milo's...
15) Obsession
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Alex Delaware novels volume 21
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Teenager Tanya Bigelow, whom Delaware treated as a child for obsessive-compulsive disorder, consults him because her aunt Patty, who raised her, conveyed a cryptic message just before she died, apparently confessing to a crime. Shortly after Delaware and Sturgis start investigating, one of Patty's former neighbors turns up dead, the first in a series of corpses that appear, possibly as a result of the duo's turning over old rocks.
16) The web
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Alex Delaware novels volume 10
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Psychologist Alex Delaware and his wife are invited to a remote island in the South Pacific to help a scientist organize his research files--three months in paradise, all expenses paid, that is until people start getting murdered. On discovering venomous cockroaches in their room, they know they are next.
17) Gone
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Alex Delaware novels volume 20
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The abduction of two art students turns out to have been faked, but the murder that follows is very real.
18) Devil's waltz
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Alex Delaware novels volume 7
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Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright and energetic. But over the past 18 months Cassie has been rushed to Western Pediatric Medical Center with alarming frequency. Each time her pediatrician fails to come up with a diagnosis and finally calls in Dr. Alex Delaware. Instinct tells him that someone is deliberately making Cassie ill, and the prime suspects are the parents. But Alex also realizes that something disturbing is going on in the hospital...
19) Time bomb
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When psychologist, Alex Delaware, is called in to conduct a psychological autopsy on a playground sniper in order to clear the name of the sniper's family, he soon becomes the target for an obsessive hatred.
20) Guilt
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Alex Delaware novels volume 28
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When he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains at a neglected Tudor mansion, psychologist Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unspeakable cruelty.