Mercy A Novel of Psychosexual Suspense

NY: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover_vinyl spine. Collectible - VeryGood/Good. 5.5"x8.5". 512 pgs. Black boards. Black vinyl spine w/silver metallic letters. Jacket illustration by Rob Grace. Jacket design by Whitney Cookman. DJ #17031. Author photo by Bill Wiman. Spine creased, binding tight, pages clean & bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Dent to spine. Scrape to front of DJ w/nicks and small tears around edges. SHIP SAME DAY W/TRACKING #. 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. . .
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