New York: Bantam Books. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0553052519 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. There is one spot of fraying to the top spine joint of the book cover - it appears to be a publishing error, not a fault due to wear. The text pages are clean and brighg. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some beginning toning to the top edges. "Kellerman graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) with a Ph. D in psychology in 1974 and began working as a staff psychologist at the University of Southern California School of Medicine where he eventually became a full clinical professor of pediatrics. He opened a private practice in the early 1980s while writing novels in his garage at night. His first published novel, When the Bough Breaks appeared in 1985, many years after writing and having works rejected. He then wrote five best selling novels while still a practicing psychologist. In 1990 he quit his private practice to write full-time. He has written more than 40 crime novels as well as non-fiction works and children's books. " (from Wikipedia) .

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They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found. From the sacred Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge deep into a city simmering with religious and political passions to hunt for a murderer whos insatiable taste for young women could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival depends. A brilliant novel by a master of the genre, a vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history -- this, and more, is The Butcher's Theater.From the Paperback edition.

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Bookseller: S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: A41603
Title: The Butcher's Theater
Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0553052519
ISBN 13: 9780553052510
Publisher: Bantam Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: 0553052519, Horror, Jonathan Kellerman, Psychology, Jerusalem, Murder
Bookseller catalogs: Horror;

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