Audio Book Description:
A tipsy young woman seeking aidon a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death inbroad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in asmall-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts ofcruelty and psychopathology arelinked only by the killer`s useof luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPDdetective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware. What begins with a solitary bloodstain in a stolensedan quickly spirals outward in odd andunexpected directions, leading Delaware and Sturgis from the well-heeled center of L.A.society to its desperate edges;across the paths of commoditiesbrokers and transvestite hookers; and as far away as New York City, where the search thaws out a long-cold case and exposesa grotesque homicidal crusade. The killer proves to be a fleeting shape-shifter, defying identification, leavingbehind dazed witnesses anddeath-and compelling Alex and Milo to confront the true face of murderous madness.
