Compulsion Author:Michael Stewart A beautiful young woman, wearing nothing but a silk night-robe, leaps to her death in New York's East River. Her body is never found, and its macabre mutilation goes unrecorded. She is identified from the night-robe as Cristina Parigi, a model working for a high-class Madison Avenue salon owned by wealthy and well-connected Joanna Lefever. — ... more »Joanna and her English husband Stephen, a behavioral psychologist specializing in decoding body language, seem to have everything. But the tragic death of their infant son two years before has scarred their lives, and the memory of this, and the guilt at their own hand in it, is gradually driving them apart. Stephen takes to affairs with his young students, while Joanna tries to lose herself in her work. In the suffocating August heat the pressures build to exploding point.« less