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Summary: A riveting descent into darkness and shocking kinkiness.
Review: A riveting descent into darkness and shocking kinkiness that will haunt you for days after you finish it.
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Summary: Disappointed!
Review: Although David Lindsey has a talent for descriptive prose, this book overall was a big disappointment to me. He did not seem to have a clear idea how the plot would unravel, and left too many loose ends. Each time I expected a new wrinkle to develop from a piece of evidence, he didn't bother to tie it in. I think it's possible that he didn't even know how it would end until it did, and at that point he was just tired of writing. If you decide to read this book, be prepared to see very ugly things with no redeeming human value, and be prepared to be left wondering . . . "what ever happened with the ______ ?"
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Summary: It doesn't get any better, so quit reading
Review: Carmen Depalma, a Houston detective, searches for a bizare serial killer. The search leads her into the world of bi-sexual women and sado-masochism.
I liked this book for the first hundred pages. It seemed like a good murder/suspense tale was in the making. About page 200 I began to wish the action would speed up; at page 300 -- with 200 pages yet to traverse -- I gave up. I won't read a book that bores me.
A good editor would have chopped out most of the author's lengthy descriptions of odd sexual practices and societies of bi-sexual women and cut this book down to 300 pages. With a little more discipline and a lot of cutting the author might have produced a good thriller.
Smallchief
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Summary: A Very Good Book!
Review: David Lindsey is one of the most underrated authors in the field today. His novels are always intelligent and interesting and most emerge from authentic FBI case histories. MERCY is not so much a routine who-dun-it mystery as an exploration of the psychology of fetishes and sex, particularly kinky sex - that is assuming one doesn't consider masochism, sadism, cross-dressing, and dominatrix luncheons slightly off.There is another story beneath the obvious one and that is the practice of such behavior within the confines of polite society. The "victimes" are upper-class women of a certain type - the country club, suburban, once-a-week therapist type. Lindsey has a real knack for looking at events through the eyes of the disturbed individual, again calling on his real-life experience (FBI profiling). The prose is rich and sweeping, the organization superb, the entire story always a little on edge. This is deeply disturbing novel but an important one.
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Summary: Powerful, literate, disturbing work
Review: David Lindsey is one of the most underrated authors in the field today. His novels are always intelligent and interesting and most emerge from authentic FBI case histories. MERCY is not so much a routine who-dun-it mystery as an exploration of the psychology of fetishes and sex, particularly kinky sex - that is assuming one doesn't consider masochism, sadism, cross-dressing, and dominatrix luncheons slightly off. There is another story beneath the obvious one and that is the practice of such behavior within the confines of polite society. The "victimes" are upper-class women of a certain type - the country club, suburban, once-a-week therapist type. Lindsey has a real knack for looking at events through the eyes of the disturbed individual, again calling on his real-life experience (FBI profiling). The prose is rich and sweeping, the organization superb, the entire story always a little on edge. This is deeply disturbing novel but an important one.
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Summary: Will keep your interest
Review: I believe the author leaves you a little confused at the end because he doesn't tell you who the serial killer was.
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Summary: OK, thought-provoking, pretty suspenseful
Review: I bought this book from a book club just because I L-O-O-O-V-E suspense novels... and I was hooked! I was fascinated by the society these women have (and I'm not attracted to that sort of thing) I was also shocked to find out exactly how sheltered a life I lead. This was an edge-of-the-seater-I read it all in one night! I haven't read any more books by Lindsey but I intend to very soon!
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Summary: It shocked the ... out of me!!
Review: I bought this book from a book club just because I L-O-O-O-V-E suspense novels... and I was hooked! I was fascinated by the society these women have (and I'm not attracted to that sort of thing) I was also shocked to find out exactly how sheltered a life I lead. This was an edge-of-the-seater-I read it all in one night! I haven't read any more books by Lindsey but I intend to very soon!
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Summary: A refreshingly original and unique mystery thriller
Review: I didn't expect to be overwhelmed by this book, thinking it would be the typical albeit entertaining murder-mystery novel. Instead I encountered an exceedingly well written story with a warm, likeable protagonist and a plot that truly keeps you wondering until the last chapter. After reading this novel, I have since sought out and read all of Lindsey's novels. If you like a good, gory thriller, you have to read this book.
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Summary: You call this a mystery?
Review: I don't get what people like about this book. Lindsey is a fluid writer, good describer, but his characters spend way too much time in their own heads and the action, in this book at least, is predictable and rendered downright boring. All the lurid details that are supposed to add to the "psychoerotic" nature of the book come off as crude and off-putting instead, like a geek at a sideshow biting the head off a chicken. And anyone who can't guess the "surprise twist" by page 25 wasn't reading very closely.
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