Motive -- Jonathan Kellerman

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER - <b>Don't miss the excerpt of Jonathan Kellerman's <i>The Murderer's Daughter </i>in the back of the book </b><br></b><br>Jonathan Kellerman writes razor-sharp novels that cut to the quick. Now comes <i>Motive, </i> which pits psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis against a vicious criminal mind--the kind only Kellerman can bring to chilling life. <p/> Even having hundreds of closed cases to his credit can't keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that don't get solved--and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead end--one even Alex Delaware's expert insight can't explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder case--because there's always a next one. <p/> This time the victim is Ursula Corey: a successful, attractive divorc e who's been gunned down--not a robbery but an execution, a crime that smacks of simple, savage revenge. And along with that theoretical motive come two strong contenders for the role of perp: the dead woman's business partner/ex-husband and her divorce lawyer/secret lover. But just as Alex and Milo think they're zeroing in on the most likely suspect, a bizarre new clue stirs up eerie echoes of the unsolved Hennepin murder. And the discovery of yet another crime scene bearing the same taunting signature raises the specter of a se