MARY, MARY

Warner, New York, 2006, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-446-61903-5 / ISBN 978-0-446-61903-5.  Large MMPB, 413+ pages.  Very good minus; wraps show some edge wear; reading creases on and along spine; binding tight with a slight lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Somebody is murdering Hollywood’s A-list.  Her calling card:  “You’ve got mail.”  On a family vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross is asked to investigate the shooting of a top actress … and an e-mail sent to the Los Angeles Times with shocking details about the murder, signed Mary Smith.  More killings and more e-mails follow, and Mary Smith is getting better every time.  To hunt down this merciless killer of Tinseltown’s elite, Cross must navigate a world where the stars sip San Pellegrino at the Ivy as hopefuls hover around studio gates with 8 x 10 glossies.  And when the case catapults into blockbuster proportions, Cross and the LAPD scramble to find a pattern – before Mary sends one more chilling update.’ (from rear wrap)