Animosity

Product Details

• Notes: Characterize NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
• ISBN13: 9780446610933
• Requisite: New

Description

Two sisters. Celeste is perfect and unattainable. Leda is imperfect and irresistible. Both are dangerous in ways no man could imagine. One man, a sculptor, dares to come between them. And suddenly the line between art and life explodes in a revelation that will shatter hearts of stone...

---

Penzler Pick, April 2001: David Lindsey can write horrific thrillers such as Mercy, which ranks up there with such serial killer novels as By Reason of Insanity by Shane Stevens and The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. However, he is also the author of gentler tales--psychological suspense where the horror is subtle and comes from everyday and unexpected sources. Animosity belongs in the second category.

Ross Marteau is an American living in Paris, where he makes a decent living as a sculptor. After a particularly nasty breakup with his girlfriend of several years, he decides to return to his home in Texas and work from his studio in the art-friendly city of San Rafael. There he settles into a routine of working in the mornings on his next project and sharing conversation and a beer in the afternoons with his friend Amado Mateos. It is during one of these afternoon meetings that he notices a newcomer to the town.

Celeste Lacan is a beautiful woman who soon approaches Ross with a proposition. She would like to offer Ross a commission to sculpt her sister. Ross demurs--he already has a commission--but Celeste asks him to meet her sister before refusing, and when he does, he understands why Celeste is so insistent. Leda is not only the most beautiful woman Ross has ever seen, she is also the ugliest, and as a sculptor Ross knows that he will learn something new about beauty. As Ross begins working with Leda and meeting Celeste in the afternoons, he becomes obsessed with the two sisters. Life is about to become a living hell for Ross Marteau, and the ending of this story about art and love is breathtakingly horrifying. --Otto Penzler

---

Mercy

Description

Houston is shattered by a shock wave of  unbelievably vicious sex killings.  And this time the pattern is unique--way out of line with traditional violent-crime psychology.  In Detective Carmen Palma's experience, a psychopath always chooses anonymous targets.  But the Houston victims know and trust their killer:  They meet willingly in hotel rooms, even in their homes.  They don't fight when the leather cuffs are fastened to their wrists and ankles.  They don't even struggle when the first blows fall . . .Palma's first lightning instinct is that the victims expected their torture.  They were practicing masochists, apart of a secret clique that includes some of the city's most prominent women.  They helped choreograph their own punishments-every blow.  They just didn't expect to die. . .

---

An Absence of Light

Description

From a best-selling author who's been compared to Le Carre and Graham Greene, a taut, literate thriller of a dubious death in Houston that leads to a former Mossad legend turned arms merchant -- and master criminal.

---

The Rules of Silence

Product Details

• Circumstances: New
• ISBN13: 9780446612920
• Notes: Name brand NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

Description

Now in paperback from the bestselling author of "The Color of Night"--the gripping story of a man forced to give up everything he's worked for his entire life, or face the horrifying consequences. "The plot grabs you and just won't let go."--James Patterson.

---

A Cold Mind

Description

Somewhere in the sprawling city of Houston, a psychopath s stalking his victims.  Each is a high-priced call girl trained and groomed for the pleasure of high-powered gentlemen.  Each is found murdered, her body twisted in a climax of agony, defying medical explanation.  but most chilling of all is that the killer is coldly efficient, leaving behind no clues, no motives, no evidence.

Homicide detective Stuart Haydon has seen his share of the dangerous passions that lead to murder, but he's never seen anything like this before.  From its luxury condos to its rotting wharves and mean back streets, Haydon is sucked into the seedy sexual underbelly of the city...into a secret slave trade in flesh and lust...into the cold mind of a killer in love with death.

---

The Face of the Assassin

Product Details

• ISBN13: 9780446615419
• Notes: Label NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!
• Requisite: New

Description

Paul Bern is a forensic artist with a good life-until the day a mysterious woman brings him a skull. And the face he reconstructs for it looks shockingly like his own. Now the nightmare begins. The blackmail that will force him into the ultimate war on drugs. The mission that will use his face to lure one of the world's most dangerous men out of hiding. The horror when Paul Bern discovers his own staggering gift for violence.

---