Merciless (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series) - Hardcover

Burton, Mary

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9781410436474: Merciless (Thorndike Press Large Print Core Series)

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ISBN 10: 1410436470 ISBN 13: 9781410436474

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2011

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When defense attorney Angie Carlson, no stranger to the dark side of human nature, becomes the target of a serial killer, she is drawn into a decades-long legacy of madness and murder that is linked to a former client--Dr. Dillon Dixon, who was recently acquitted of attempted murder. (romance).

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About the Author:

Mary Burton is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of suspense novels including No Escape, You're Not Safe, Merciless, and Dead Ringer. She is a Romance Writers of America's RITA Award finalist and a RT Book Reviews' Critics Choice Award nominee. A Virginia native, she is a graduate of the Henrico County Citizens Police Academy, the Richmond FBI Citizen's Academy, and the Sisters in Crime's Forensic University program. Readers can visit her website at maryburton.com.

From Publishers Weekly:

Burton's feverish sequel to Senseless sets up a series of homicides clustered around troubled attorney Angie "The Barracuda" Carlson, who is privately wracked by guilt for successfully defending sadistic Dr. James Dixon against Lulu Sweet, the prostitute he'd tortured. When heaps of polished bones begin appearing around the city, their grisly provenance relentlessly described in alternate chapters by two psychopathic killers, hunky yet domestic Det. Malcolm Kier investigates and predictably falls for Angie, gradually revealed as the killers' ultimate target. Burton's dialogue occasionally jars, and she injects rather too many red herrings; taken as a macabre unit, the two villains, one a rapist and the other a necrophile, smack of watered-down Hannibal Lecter. But convincing detective lingo and an appropriately shivery murder venue go a long way, and Malcolm is pleasingly revealed to be a toothsome contemporary romantic Galahad who can believably tame a Barracuda. (Feb.)
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