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Summary: Excellent! Interesting subject matter-made me think alot!
Review: Mercy starts with a bang and doesn't let up until the final surprise.Lots of fun to read, lots to think about. Mercy was hard to put down. I enjoyed the Palma character.I would recommend to anyone who likes a good detective story. I have passed it to several friends who also enjoyed it.
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Summary: Scarey off-beat thriller...a heart pounder!
Review: One needs a strong stomach and sexual tolerance to read this terrific thriller/mystery, but I recommend it highly if you like well-developed characters and above average writing in the mystery genre. Upon finishing this marvelous read, I have searched for all David Lindsey books I could find and it hasn't been easy. His publisher is missing the boat in not touting this author to the paperback trade. "Silence of the Lamb" readers, don't miss this book
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Summary: A predictable, formulaic, thriller
Review: Psychosexual? I figured out the plot twist in the first few pages and the murderer as soon as he/she was introduced.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: The book is really well written and I might be willing to read another book by this author.... but this book is just too ugly.I had nightmares after reading this book, it bothered me for weeks. Read it at your own risk.
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Summary: Keeps you reading till early morning,
Review: The subject of the book is not for all tastes, the the plot is twisting and the charters are all well fleshed (pun intended) out. Murders of a S&M nature must be solved by Houston Detective Carmen Plama. In solving the murders she is drawn into lifestely complety different for her own. You care for Dectective Plama and share her adventure tracking down the killer who knows no mercy. In this treck she is forced to review her past and make her choices for the furture. I would love to see Lindsay come back to Detective Carmen Palma in another novel
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Summary: Mercy is the Most Gripping Psychosexual Thriller Yet
Review: The very best, bar none. It will grip you from first to last page--else, you are incapable of appreciating style, talent, genius, vigorous characterization, and psychological nuance of those who are well (protag Carmen) and deeply unwell in their minds. I won't spoil it. Read it & disregard the idea that dares to suggest an effete, self-indulgent, excruciatingly dull le Carre (in his latest fiction) is better than Lindsey. In fact, Lindsey is better than Thomas Harris by a longshot in developing women protagonoists & Harris is very good at portraying more than monsters. Ditto that Detroit hack Leonard & his formulaic, write-by-numbers novels. Lindsey is always different, always exciting.
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Summary: Boooooring!
Review: There are very few books, no matter how poor, that I have been unable or unwilling to finish, but this was one of them. I had to force myself to keep reading until finally, I just had to give up. I thought the writing style was pedestrian and there was just way too much of it. And yet there was no suspense and the pace was so slow, it drove me nuts. I totally disagree with reviewers who claim Lindsey writes good prose. There are so many who are better in this genre. Try John Connolly, Dennis Lehane, Carol O'Connell. I'm sure there are plenty more who can write circles around this guy. (Just to be fair, and as a favor to a friend, I'm giving Lindsey another chance and am halfway through his "Animosity". It's a totally different style, but unfortunately, no less boring. Ho hum!)
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Summary: Stunning and sexy
Review: this book kept my interest from beginning to end. One of the few books that I would read again. Very erotic
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Summary: Houston, we have a winner!
Review: This guy is a great writer. Not only is the plot fascinating, juicy and suspenseful, the characters are genuine and interesting, especially the Latin lady-cop. Above all, Lindsey captures the essence of Houston with all its complex problems and diversity that become apparent to anyone who visits that city for any length of time. Lindsey captures the setting best of anyone and certainly better than those at UH creative writing program!
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Summary: Makes Proust read like Elmore Leonard
Review: This has to be one of the most over-written books in any genre. I could not believe the amount of space wasted in wordy, directionless exposition. The author should be cited by the EPA for the hapless trees that needed to be sacrificed to print this junk. Police work has never seemed so boring. The events in this book are built on coincidence and the lethargic will of the author; the investigators do nothing except stand around, talk in copspeak and react to the next transition in plot-which seems light years away to the reader. I truly cannot believe the number of people who rated this book highly. In one of Kirkus' other reviews, they equate Lindsey to Le Carre, a comparison that might ring true if Le Carre was drugged and beat about the head with a hammer before being positioned in front of his typewriter. Mercy blows more hot air than its Houston setting.
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