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    "title": "The Butcher's Theatre",
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    "annotation": "<p><span>They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the&nbsp;&nbsp;butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage,&nbsp;&nbsp;a faceless killer performs his violent specialty:&nbsp;&nbsp;The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old&nbsp;&nbsp;girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed&nbsp;&nbsp;and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a&nbsp;&nbsp;second victim is found. From the sacred&nbsp;&nbsp;Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets&nbsp;&nbsp;are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves&nbsp;&nbsp;to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police&nbsp;&nbsp;inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge&nbsp;&nbsp;deep into a city simmering with religious and&nbsp;&nbsp;political passions to hunt for a murderer whos&nbsp;&nbsp;insatiable taste for young women could destroy the&nbsp;&nbsp;delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival&nbsp;&nbsp;depends.</span><br /><span>A brilliant novel by a master of&nbsp;&nbsp;the genre, a vivid look at the tortured&nbsp;&nbsp;complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a&nbsp;&nbsp;city steeped in history -- this, and more, is&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><em>The Butcher's Theater</em><span>.</span></p>",
    "description": "<p><span>They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the&nbsp;&nbsp;butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage,&nbsp;&nbsp;a faceless killer performs his violent specialty:&nbsp;&nbsp;The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old&nbsp;&nbsp;girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed&nbsp;&nbsp;and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a&nbsp;&nbsp;second victim is found. From the sacred&nbsp;&nbsp;Wailing Wall to the monasteries where dark secrets&nbsp;&nbsp;are cloistered, from black-clad bedouin enclaves&nbsp;&nbsp;to labyrinthine midnight alleys, veteran police&nbsp;&nbsp;inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team plunge&nbsp;&nbsp;deep into a city simmering with religious and&nbsp;&nbsp;political passions to hunt for a murderer whos&nbsp;&nbsp;insatiable taste for young women could destroy the&nbsp;&nbsp;delicate balance on which Jerusalem's very survival&nbsp;&nbsp;depends.<br /></span><br /><span>A brilliant novel by a master of&nbsp;&nbsp;the genre, a vivid look at the tortured&nbsp;&nbsp;complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a&nbsp;&nbsp;city steeped in history -- this, and more, is&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><em>The Butcher's Theater</em><span>.</span></p>",
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