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This was a great read.

A gripping psychological thriller about a detective's pursuit of a serial killer preying on young women in Jerusalem before the worsening tensions cause the Muslim, Jewish & Christian communities of the city explode.

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. 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, 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 who's 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.

Another great mystery by Jonathan Kellerman! Fantastic descriptions of Israel. Very intense and bloody.

A gripping psychological thriller about an Israeli homicide detective's pursuit of a serial killer preying on young Palestinian women in Jerusalem before the worsening tensions cause the Muslim, Jewish & Christian communities of the city explode.

One of Kellerman's best.

A fantastic read.

I think this was Kellerman's third novel. It is long, at 628 pages of very small font. Quite a bit of Israeli history woven into a good whodoneit thriller.

Ties in nicely with a lot of the middle east stuff going on now

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained state, a faceless killer performs his violent speciality. Police Daniel Sharavi plunges deep into the city to hunt for a murderer.