Love Kills (Max Segal) - Softcover

Greenburg, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477848983 ISBN 13: 9781477848982

Publisher: Thomas & Mercer, 2014

Synopsis

The attractive redhead at the A&P checkout counter opens her checkbook and begins writing a check, unaware that she’s signing her own death warrant. The man behind her in the dark overcoat memorizes the address on her check. When she leaves the A&P, he follows her home. In the next few weeks he tracks her every move...and when she rebuffs his advances, he stabs her.

Five women, chosen at random, fall victim to a man the press dubs the Hyena. The NYPD has no leads until young Babette Watson walks into homicide detective Max Segal’s office. She tells him she’s had disturbing visions of all the crimes before they happened. Dubious, Max takes a chance in believing the pretty psychic, and it isn’t long before they’re on the Hyena’s trail. But the Hyena knows they’re tracking him, and it won’t be long before he strikes.

Like Fear Itself and Exes, Dan Greenburg’s other bestselling thrillers, Love Kills is a terrifyingly realistic, darkly humorous, startlingly sexual, street-tough page-turner with a surprising climax.

About this title

About the Author

Dan Greenburg’s seventy-three books have been translated into twenty-four languages and include Fear Itself and the two previous bestsellers in the Max Segal series, Love Kills and Exes. Dan has written many humor books, including How to Be a Jewish Mother and How to Make Yourself Miserable, as well as several movies, TV shows, Broadway shows, and he’s also been a stand-up comedian and a tiger tamer, among other things. To research Fear Itself, Dan spent two years with NYPD homicide cops, going to crime scenes and autopsies to check out corpses, accompanying detectives on high-speed car chases and door-busting arrests. Dan also spent several weeks doing research in maximum security prisons, interviewing convicted murderers in their cells.

Review

Praise for Dan Greenburg:

"Mr. Greenburg writes an engrossing tale filled with black humor and psychologically interesting characters. Great grisly fun." —New York Times Book Reviews

"Greenburg’s chief skill is his ability to blend comedy, horror and tragedy in the same situation.” —Chicago Tribune

"Greenburg weaves in enough plot twists and street-tough legalese to make these pages nearly turn by themselves." —San Francisco Chronicle

"The authenticity of Exes grabs you, and the gory reality may give you nightmares. Greenburg's talent for blending psychodrama and mystery pays off in a blockbuster thriller." —Houston Chronicle

"It is the atmosphere of authenticity, reminiscent of Ed McBain's 87th Precinct police procedural novels, that gives Exes its impact." —New York Newsday

"Dan Greenburg creates a police thriller that reads as realistic as anything Joseph Wambaugh ever produced. It's alternately absorbing, sad and funny." —Boston Globe

Edition details

• Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1477848983
• ISBN 13: 9781477848982
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 338