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Bayer, William was born on February 20, 1939 in Cleveland. Son of Leo Bayer and Eleanor (Rosenfeld) Perry.
( It begins when the strangely marked body of a young pro...)
It begins when the strangely marked body of a young prostitute is found just outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. A similarly disfigured corpse of an American nun turns up. Then an Arab boy. As the list of victims grows, their only apparent connection is the bizarre markings on their bodies, it appears that Israel is facing its first serial murder case. David Bar-Lev, chief of the Pattern Crimes Unit of the Jerusalem police, is not so sure. A tough yet sensitive investigator with a powerful intelligence and a querying mind, he begins searching for a pattern that will explain the apparently random killings. At first the disorder is overwhelming, the case unfathomable. But then, as David probes deeper into this particular pattern crime, he is not so sure he wants to understand it. Pieces emerge that suggest that this time the key may lie within his own life. During the course of his investigation he must uncover and confront many painful secrets: • The mysterious behavior of his father, Avraham, a retired psychoanalyst; • The tragic suicide of his brother, Gideon, a talented fighter pilot; • The hidden past of his beautiful Russian lover, the cellist Anna; • And the possibility of corruption within the Jerusalem police and the ultra-secret General Security Services (Shin Bet). But despite the pain of these and other revelations, David probes on until he finally glimpses his astonishing solution - for, as one cop says of David Bar-Lev, "It is not enough for him to investigate. David has to understand." The Jerusalem of Pattern Crimes is not the idealized Holy City of the guidebooks. Depicted as the capital of an angry, anguished, torn-up nation, a city of prostitutes, narcotics dealers, lusting journalists, ruthless politicians, and zealots of every stripe, it becomes here an arena for a remarkable story of crime and punishment. This is a book about patterns - in love, in relationshi...
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( Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious...)
Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious trauma in his past, he has, for many years, been unable to photograph people. When Kimberly Yates suddenly enters his life, Geoffrey's world is turned upside down. She nurtures him back to life - emotionally, mentally, and sexually. Eventually he is able to photograph her. Then she disappears, like a puff of smoke, as if she were just a dream, a vision that Geoffrey has conjured up. As he begins to search for Kimberly, Geoffrey discovers that perhaps she was a dream. Soon, he begins to wish that she weren't real, because his obsession with her turns his life from dream into a nightmare. As he discovers the truth about Kimberly, she leads him down a path of greed, deceit, and blackmail. It is a road littered with sexual perversions and struggles for power, with unbelievable pleasures and even greater pain, with powerful love and passion for life, and inevitably, the terror of death.
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( Originally released under the pseudonym David Hunt. A ...)
Originally released under the pseudonym David Hunt. A shocking and provocative new thriller from the author of the national best seller The Magician's Tale. Kay Farrow, a color-blind photographer who sees the world in black, white, and shades of gray, probes the mysterious death of her beloved mentor on a quest that takes her to the darkest intersections of San Francisco's Mission District. When distinguished photojournalist Maddy Yamada is struck by a motorcyclist at two in the morning in a seedy area far from her Marina apartment, Kay Farrow's grief is tempered by suspicion. What could have drawn the reclusive Maddy so far from home at such an hour? Kay believes Maddy's work in progress - blurry, abstract images uncharacteristic of a woman famous for her unsparing clarity of vision - holds elusive clues, clues Kay is determined to decipher. Tracing old photographs and undeveloped film discovered in one of Maddy's cameras, Kay begins to bring into focus Maddy's activities at the time of her death. The territory Kay must cover runs from the back alleys of the Mission to the elite enclaves of Pacific Heights and beyond, to a very private shooting preserve miles north of the city. Lurking in her path is a netherworld of decadence and evil - and evidence that Maddy's death was no accident. Kay doggedly pursues a winding path to justice, negotiating a labyrinth of debauchery and dark desires. New York Times best-selling author William Bayer has written numerous crime novels. His books have won several prizes, including the "best novel" Edgar, have been published in 15 foreign languages, and his Janek series novels have been made into seven television movies all broadcast on CBS. He and his wife, cookbook author Paula Wolfert, lived in the Sonoma Valley in Northern California.
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( A man and a woman are making love.... One hot summer a...)
A man and a woman are making love.... One hot summer afternoon a quarter century ago, a wealthy socialite and her young lover, a private school teacher, were gunned down in a cheap hotel room on the outskirts of the Midwestern city of Calista. Now, forensic sketch artist David Weiss has returned to his hometown to cover a routine celebrity murder trial for ABC. For someone who has earned a reputation for cracking high-profile cases with his portraits of suspects based on eyewtiness accounts, chruning out courtroom sketches is merely pedestrian work. But Calista holds other attractions for David. First, there are the welcome attentions of CNN reporter Pam Wells. Then there's the notoriously unsolved double murder at the Flamingo Court motel that has haunted him since boyhood. Like his psychoanalyst father before him, David becomes obsessed with one of the Flamingo victims, Barbara Fulraine - who was as fascinating as she was enigmatic - and with the bizarre circle of friends, gangsters, columnists, and lovers who surrounded her. David's father believed that if he could unlock Barbara's troubling, recurring nightmare - which she called "the dream of the broken horses" - his solution would mark a watershed in his career. Now David, armed with old news clippings and police interviews, as well as an extraordinary psychological case study of Mrs. Fulraine recently discovered among his deceased father's effects, seeks to use his highly honed professional skills to reassemble the face of her killer. But with each eyewitness interview and each fresh stroke of his pencil, David finds himself being hurled down a path of ever-darkening mystery, obsession and dread. One of our most elegant and commanding writers of psycho-erotic suspense, William Bayer has crafted a riveting, sharp-edged psychological thriller, perhaps his finest, most compelling work to date.
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((Limelight). "A hip compendium of cinema savvy ... perhap...)
(Limelight). "A hip compendium of cinema savvy ... perhaps the most practical battle manual available to the young filmmaker." Newsweek
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(A vengeful woman observes her typical ploy of abducting a...)
A vengeful woman observes her typical ploy of abducting and robbing her victims in order to humiliate them, but when the latest target is also murdered, Detective Frank Janek must discover the source of the woman's wrath. Reprint. K. LJ. PW.
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Bayer, William was born on February 20, 1939 in Cleveland. Son of Leo Bayer and Eleanor (Rosenfeld) Perry.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1960.
Foreign service officer, United States Information Agency, Washington and Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, 1963-1968; freelance documentary filmmaker, 1968-1972; freelance writer, San Francisco, since 1972.
(A vengeful woman observes her typical ploy of abducting a...)
(While trying the solve the case of the man who was murder...)
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( It begins when the strangely marked body of a young pro...)
(It begins when the strangely marked body of a young prost...)
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(Pattern Crimes (Signet) Apr 05, 1988 Bayer, William ...)
(Originally released under the pseudonym David Hunt. A sh...)
( Originally released under the pseudonym David Hunt. A ...)
( Geoffrey Barnett is a photographer. Due to a mysterious...)
( A man and a woman are making love.... One hot summer a...)
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Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Writers Guild American West, Authors Guild, International Association Crime Writers (president 1991-1993), Mystery Writers of America.
Married Paula Wolfert, August 10, 1983.