Author, investigative reporter, and television hostess
Maxine Revere has been trying to discover what happened to
Jim and Sandy Palazzolo, a couple who visited New York
City
to celebrate their second honeymoon. They checked into a
New York hotel one year ago, and they checked out a few
days
later, never to be seen or heard from again. The local
police have put this matter into their cold case files.
The
couple's children have hired Max to find out what happened
to them.
Serial killer Adam Bachman normally preyed on young women,
and Jim and Sandy don't fall anywhere in the parameters of
his m.o., but some statements that Bachman has made lead
Max
to believe that this killer knows what happened to the
older
couple, or was even responsible for their disappearance.
She has a very short time to gather evidence that will
prove
her hunch, and this throws her into a secondary
investigation of Bachman. She's stepping on a lot of toes
at the Department of Justice.
COMPULSION is the second book in a series featuring Maxine
"Max" Revere. Max is so dedicated to clients and the
truth
that she gets in a lot of trouble with both good guys and
bad guys. She is such an asset to her television show on
NET, Maximum Exposure, that the station has hired David
Kane, an ex-Army Ranger, to be Max's body guard, personal
assistant, and anything else needed to keep her out of
trouble. David has become Max's best friend and only
confidant. Max has recently hired Riley Butler as an
assistant. David doesn't particularly like Riley because
she is too headstrong and impatient, and those are the
assets Max sees in the young woman. Max has recently
started a romantic relationship with San Francisco PD
Detective Nick Santini; they met while working on a case
involving some of Max's high school friends. Prior to
Nick, she had been in a long term liaison with FBI
Supervisorial Special Agent Marco Lopez, who is based in
Florida, and Marco isn't giving her up easily. Max's
entire
life is told in bits and pieces in each of the Revere
stories; she has some very sad and heartbreaking childhood
memories.
Max eventually connects her cold case with Bachman's
activities, and his collaborators, but getting evidence is
putting her life in grave danger, as well as the lives of
anyone associated with her. Instead of Max finding the
evildoers, she soon realizes they are giving her a trail
of
crumbs to follow so she is always in their sights.
Allison Brennan is a master of macabre and chilling story
lines featuring fully resolved characters and well-paced
action. COMPULSION is a compulsive, riveting work of
crime
fiction at its very best.
Investigative reporter Maxine Revere has a theory: that
the
five New York City murders for which Adam Bachman is being
tried are just part of his killing spree. In probing the
disappearance of a retired couple who vanished the prior
summer, Max uncovers striking similarities to Bachman’s MO
and develops a theory that Bachman wasn’t working alone.
Max wins a coveted pre-trial interview with the killer,
whose disarming composure in the face of her questions is
combined with uncomfortable knowledge of Max’s own past.
She
leaves the room convinced, but unable to prove, that
Bachman
knows exactly what happened to the missing couple. The
D.A.
wants nothing to jeopardize his case against Bachman and
refuses to consider Max’s theory. With no physical
evidence,
Max has to rely on her own wits and investigative prowess
to
dig deep into Bachman’s past. The picture that Max puts
together is far darker and more deadly than she ever
imagined.
As Max gets closer to the truth, she doesn’t realize that
she’s walking down a road that has been paved just for
her.
That every step she takes brings her one step closer to a
brilliant, methodical sociopath who has been waiting for
her
to make just one small mistake.
And when she does, he’ll be there waiting.
Max Revere returns in another gripping, pulse-pounding
thriller from New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan.
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