Do You like book The Third Deadly Sin (1987)?
My favorite book from Sanders. Read it three times already, since I bought it in second hand bookshop. Serial killers are not usually my cup of tea, but this is something special, more frightening than vampires or werevolves. An ordinary person - the kind that could be living in the apartment next door - developing a taste for murder, her sanity gradually disintegrating, incapable of going back to a normal life, even when given a chance. An ordinary policeman, patiently gathering scraps of evidence and building a psychopat's mental profile, struggling with his own solitude.
—Algernon
I liked this one even better than "The First Deadly Sin." Kept going back to re-read favorite passages in the paperback I had until the darned thing went to pieces. Again, Mr. Sanders switches between viewpoints of the killer and the cop, making for pretty good suspense. The book was written (and I read it) decades ago, before personal computers, cell phones, and the Internet, and I find it fascinating to follow the unraveling of a complex crime by persistence, hard work, and the use of intellect.
—Kathryn Flatt
Suffering from painful menstrual cramps by day, divorced Zoe Kohler passes as an invisible middle-aged secretary for New York City Hotel Granger security, but by night, in a midnight black long wig, clingy dress, stiletto heels, hiding a lethal Swiss Army knife, she prowls large hotel bars to end lechery of conference attendees. NYPD officer Delaney takes on the serial killer. (Not a spoiler, because Sanders starts with her.)I'm more for the drawing room puzzles of Christie than explicit ("graphic") "She did not masturbate", lingerie concealing "the nipples and pudendum" p32, "his flaccid penis and testicles, half-hidden .. With bloodied, slippery hand, she drove the knife blade again and again into his genitals" p43. Ick, uck, and yuck. I pushed through chapters but forgot everything. Months later, barely managed just first chapter. I'd liked the eccentricity of his Archy McNally detective (even he is over-sexed) and Palm Beach setting, so tried more Sanders. XX-rated.
—An Odd1
