Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1New York Timesbestselling author Jonathan Kellerman's brilliant storytelling. And noone conducts 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 inky blacknight. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight.Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beautyparlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology arelinked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lackof motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention ofLAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat,psychologist Alex Delaware.What begins with a solitarybloodstain in a stolen sedan quickly spirals outward in odd andunexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeledcenter of L.A. society to its desperate edges; across the paths ofcommodities brokers and transvestite hookers; and as far away as NewYork City, where the search thaws out a long-cold case and exposes agrotesque homicidal crusade. The killer proves to be a fleetingshape-shifter, defying identification, leaving behind dazed witnessesand death - and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face ofmurderous madness.