BAYER, William - Pattern Crimes - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

 Did belong to a library before and was much used and abused - Usual ex-lib markings and then some - Thus a reading copy - Same edition Google image used .   >>>   Seemingly random victims are being brutally murdered, their bodies mutilated with strange markings.  Yet David Bar-Lev, chief of the Pattern Crimes unit of Jerusalem's police, searches for a pattern to these acts.  To his amazement, he discovers that the murders are merely part of an even larger and infinitely more shocking pattern. (Goodreads) ....and then Cphe added "Strangely enough it was the descriptions of Jerusalem that kept my attention riveted through this mystery, and even though the mystery element was well executed it was the setting that was the most fascinating to this reader.   -   Overall a well plotted police procedural with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing to the end.