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Loading... Show of Evil (original 1995; edition 1996)by William Diehl
Work InformationShow of Evil by William Diehl (1995)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Good sequel to Primal Fear When a young mother is slaughtered in southern Illinois, Martin Vail's investigator recognizes the combination of letters on the back of her head. These same letters soon appear on the corpses of a delivery man and an altar boy--the mark of Aaron Stampler. But Stampler has been in an institution for the criminally insane for ten years. Are these copycat murders? Is Stampler loose? Vail and his team must stop the killings, and this time they mean to finish the job. A well done book, with exciting sequences and some truly chilling ones, too. this is a sequel to primal fear. it's still entertaining, but the kind of annoying psychological stuff of the first book was more annoying this time around. maybe it's because i have a background in psychology, but i didn't love the way he dealt with it. it wasn't terrible or anything, and i didn't even bother noting it in my review of primal fear but it was slightly harder to ignore in this one. also, this didn't seem to be as well written to me as the first one. but still kept me reading. no reviews | add a review
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It begins with a shocking, unsolved murder. In small town in southern Illinois, the butchered body of Linda Balfour--with a cryptic code printed in blood on the back of her head--forges a gruesome link to the brutal murder of Bishop Rushman, the beloved Chicago clergyman who had been dismembered years before by the angelic-looking altar boy, Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom defense attorney Martin Vail saved from the electric chair... Now Vail is Chicago's chief prosecutor, facing the nightmare of his life. If Stampler has been locked away in a high-security institution for the past ten years, how could he have killed Linda Balfour? Then another altar boy turns up dead with a similar inscription in blood on the back of his head. If Aaron Stampler isn't committing these killings, who is? Martin Vail's career--maybe even his life--hangs on the answer... No library descriptions found. |
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