The Butcher's Theater - Hardcover

Kellerman, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553052519 ISBN 13: 9780553052510

Publisher: Bantam, 1988

Synopsis

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the  butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage,  a faceless killer performs his violent specialty:  The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old  girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed  and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a  second victim is found. From the sacred  Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets  are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves  to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police  inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge  deep into a city simmering with religious and  political passions to hunt for a murderer whos  insatiable taste for young women could destroy the  delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival  depends.

A brilliant novel by a master of  the genre, a vivid look at the tortured  complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a  city steeped in history -- this, and more, is  The Butcher's Theater.
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From the Back Cover:

A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theatre.

"Crisp...suspenseful... intense." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Spellbinding... a fascinating tale." --
Time

"A finish as tense and suspensful as that of The Day Of The Jackal or Eye Of The Needle " -- USA Today

"This one is going to scare the hell out of a lot of people on its way to the bestseller lists" -- Elmore Leonard

About the Author:

Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than three dozen bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. With his son, bestselling novelist Jesse Kellerman, he co-authored the first book of a new series, The Golem of Hollywood. He is also the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California, New Mexico, and New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0553052519
• ISBN 13: 9780553052510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 627