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The prison bludgeoning death of convicted cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer in 1994 is the springboard for this intricate but wildly improbable police procedural. Mere days after Dahmer's burial, Columbus County, Wis., is terrorized by a new cannibal killer whose fingerprints, handwriting and phone voice all match those of the supposedly deceased Dahmer. The press and police are convinced that Dahmer has either faked his death or been resurrected. But Helen Cross, a captain of the Wisconsin State Police Violent Crimes Unit, detects nuances in the crimes that suggest that a copycat with a different m.o. has made a diabolical change in his model's methods. Lee and Steffen demonstrate the same facility for imagining spattery crime scenes that galvanized their previous collaboration, Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman. They are less capable with living flesh and blood. Only Helen, a bundle of instincts and insecurities that intensify when her investigation implicates her lover, medical examiner Tom Drake, has a personality complex enough to match the contrivances of the plot. Her associates and adversaries come across as little more than ghouls or geeks who exist primarily to discuss cutting-edge forensic techniques in numbing clinical detail--none more so than the chortling villain, whose climactic revelations of how he pulled off his crimes read with all the passion of a modern criminology textbook. That's a shame, since the authors come close to making the threat expressed in their lurid tabloid title seem, at least briefly, an eerie possibility. (Oct.)

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In November 1994, one of history[HTML_REMOVED]s most diabolical serial-killers is beaten to death by another inmate in the prison where he was serving fifteen consecutive life sentences. Jeffrey Dahmer is dead. Or is he? Two weeks after the madman[HTML_REMOVED]s body is buried, another cannibalistic murder spree begins. Fingerprints, DNA, and modus operandi all link Dahmer to the hideous crimes. Homicide cop Helen Closs is certain it[HTML_REMOVED]s all a hoax or a clever copycat...until the night her own phone rings, and Jeffrey Dahmer himself begins to speak... Dahmer[HTML_REMOVED]s Not Dead is the latest collaborative effort by acclaimed horror novelist Edward Lee and serial-killer expert Elizabeth Steffen. Don[HTML_REMOVED]t expect the same explicit hardcore horror that Edward Lee is so well-known for. Instead, Dahmer[HTML_REMOVED]s Not Dead is a brilliant and technically accurate police-procedural thriller on par with the best crime novelists working today.

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an innocent convent girl, he is also occupied with the conquest of a virtuous married woman. Eventually their human pawns respond, and the consequences prove to be more serious-and deadly-than the players could have ever predicted. <

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Praise for Lora Leigh and the Bound Hearts Series

“Scorching hot and a lot of fun. Readers who like strong heroines, mysterious heroes, and erotica with a side of suspense will love this one.”—RT Book Reviews, on Guilty Pleasure

“Guilty Pleasure is a rich, delicious story that’s filled with action, adventure, and the sizzling hot sensuality that author Lora Leigh is known for.”—Fallen Angels Reviews

“Only Pleasure is a wild ride into eroticism balanced with an equal measure of pure romance. You won’t put it down until you’ve reached the very end!”—Wild on Books

“A sizzling hot love story guaranteed to heat up the cold winter nights.”—Fresh Fiction on Only Pleasure

“A titillating surprise.”—Publishers Weekly on Only Pleasure

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Abram Mustafa faces the test of his life and his heart when his terrorist father kidnaps Paige Galbraithe, the one woman who has always been able to touch Abram’s soul. With Paige’s life now in danger, Abram knows that his plans for escape from the only home he has ever known have suddenly become more imperative than ever.

Paige has always wondered if the dark, cool and mysterious Abram el Hamid Mustafa is hiding a wicked side. . . . a wicked side that will allow her to explore the kind of pleasure she has dreamed of. But when she is kidnapped by his father, she finds that she must trust Abram with more than her fantasies. Paige must trust him with her life…and her heart.

Secret, dangerous desires will bind Abram and Paige together as the forces surrounding them try to tear them apart.