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Mirror Maze

by William Bayer

Series: Frank Janek (4)

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"Nobody writes better psychological thrillers than William Bayer. And no character in contemporary crime fiction is as compelling or complex as Lieutenant Frank Janek of the N.Y.P.D. Now Bayer and Janek are back - in a brilliant novel of terror and excitement." "A beautiful young woman meets her latest "pick-up" in a Manhattan hotel bar and goes back with him to his room, where she drugs him, robs him, and humiliates him. Several hours later, the "mark" is found dead, the mysterious young woman is wanted for the murder, and Janek and his team of detectives are assigned to the case. Simultaneously, Janek becomes involved in the reopening of a grisly society-murder investigation that has plagued Internal Affairs for nine years. As he sets out to solve both puzzles, the present and past eerily dovetail, culminating with a deadly battle in a secret mirror maze hidden beneath a "ghost" amusement park." "Mirror Maze sinuously leads the reader through one maze after another - literal, theoretical, and psychological. As with the other bestselling Janek novels, Switch and Wallflower, Mirror Maze is a superb police procedural, tense and violent, as well as a thoughtful examination of the blurring of illusion and reality, guilt and innocence." "Absolutely galvanizing, Mirror Maze finds William Bayer and Frank Janek at the top of their form."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (more)
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Police Mystery) I'm so sorry, but I can no longer tell if William Bayer is good or not. He's just got me snookered. If he writes it, I'll read it. Frank Janek, NY homicide detective, has two crimes this time. One mirrors the other and both are fascinating. Do yourself a favor and find a William Bayer mystery. ( )
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"Nobody writes better psychological thrillers than William Bayer. And no character in contemporary crime fiction is as compelling or complex as Lieutenant Frank Janek of the N.Y.P.D. Now Bayer and Janek are back - in a brilliant novel of terror and excitement." "A beautiful young woman meets her latest "pick-up" in a Manhattan hotel bar and goes back with him to his room, where she drugs him, robs him, and humiliates him. Several hours later, the "mark" is found dead, the mysterious young woman is wanted for the murder, and Janek and his team of detectives are assigned to the case. Simultaneously, Janek becomes involved in the reopening of a grisly society-murder investigation that has plagued Internal Affairs for nine years. As he sets out to solve both puzzles, the present and past eerily dovetail, culminating with a deadly battle in a secret mirror maze hidden beneath a "ghost" amusement park." "Mirror Maze sinuously leads the reader through one maze after another - literal, theoretical, and psychological. As with the other bestselling Janek novels, Switch and Wallflower, Mirror Maze is a superb police procedural, tense and violent, as well as a thoughtful examination of the blurring of illusion and reality, guilt and innocence." "Absolutely galvanizing, Mirror Maze finds William Bayer and Frank Janek at the top of their form."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Lieut. Frank Janek is working on two difficult cases. One involves the murder of a man in a hotel room and a ring of women who prey on men looking for one-night stands. The other is a nine-year-old headache that haunts the NYPD: Janek goes to Cuba to interview a witness who could turn around the conviction of a wealthy man in prison for the brutal murder of his wife. It all seems straightforward until Janek realizes that each fact is distorted, and each truth hides another.
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