Night Calls Mmp: Beloved-Can

By Rex Anderson

Book Overview

Something very unpleasant is happening in Houston. Chad Palmer, owner of a lighting store, has become the target of a homicidal maniac. With frightening regularity, the disturbed killer telephones Chad and forces him to listen helplessly as he kills his female victims. At first, the solution to the murders seems simple: a police wiretap, call tracing, and it will all be over with. But the killer's too-clever technique prevents call tracing, and he continues calling Chad, chatting with him more and more familiarly, and then killing another woman. At last, the agonized Chad convinces the police to try something unorthodox...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312907184
• ISBN13: 9780312907181
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: St. Martin's
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

NIGHT CALLS kept me awake!

Chad Palmer is a nice guy in Houston who suddenly starts getting calls from an anonymous killer. One who murders his victims while on the phone with Chad. Chad goes to the police to assist them, but the calls cannot be traced and some suspicion falls on him. He meets an attractive policewoman. There is a battered wife whose feelings are revealed in the subplot. While it appears this serial killer will continue indefinetely, Chad endangers his own life to reveal and stop the killer. NIGHT CALLS is a turn the pages thriller.