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Mantis
Mantis | Richard La Plante
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A serial killer is stalking Philadelphia. Fogarty is in charge of the investigation. The victims are killed horribly and then sexually assaulted. What Fogarty doesn't know is that the murderer is an adept of a martial art in which the strike is made with a hook-like hand - the Way of the Mantis.
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Mantis | Richard La Plante
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I was disappointed in this 1992 serial killer/police thriller, mostly because the cover endorsement name drops “The Silence of the Lambs” and this novel is not remotely in the same class. For genre fans it has a few eerie moments, but the procedural aspects are nonexistent and the character development is a bucket of cliches. It‘s the first in a four-book series so maybe the sequels are better. I think I‘m one and done though.