Silent Mercy / Linda Fairstein / 387 pp

Alexander Cooper, Ass't D.A., and Mike Chapman, NYPD cop are once again chasing a killer around New York City. The killer is torturing, decapitating, burning and placing his victims in New York church buildings. It becomes a race to save the latest victim and in the final pages even Alex and Mike, on an off limits island. The New York City history, that is always interwoven in Fairstein's books, is an added bonus, this time, on religion and the background history of some of New York's oldest churches. This is the 13th thriller featuring Alexandra Cooper and Mike Chapman, ( their friend Mercer Wallace is not as major a player in this book) which still grabs your attention on page one and doesn't let go until you turn the last page.