Lawrence Sanders: The Anderson Tapes / The Fourth Deadly Sun / The Tenth Commandment

The Anderson Tapes
When John “Duke” Anderson, a recently released ex-con, goes home with wealthy divorcee Agnes Everleigh, he assumes he’s in for a run-of-the-mill one-night stand. Instead, their lurid night of passion leads to the heist of his dreams. But he can’t do it alone, so, in need of financial backing and the right men, Anderson delves into the seedy crime netherworld of New York City, reestablishing old ties with Mafia bosses, petty thieves, electronic wizards, and his favorite S&M vixen.
The Fourth Deadly Sin
If the fourth deadly sin is anger, then whoever bashed in the head of eminent New York psychiatrist Simon Ellerbee transgressed with a vengeance. With the murder making headlines, and without even a hint of a lead, the NYPD is under pressure to close the file on Ellerbee fast. So they do what they have to They call in Edward X. Delaney, Chief of Detectives, Retired.
The Ellerbee killing, as Delaney sees at once, is an odd kind of crime – refined and discreet, yet hideous – and the hunt for the killer is on. The ensuing investigation of the doctor’s former patients leads Delaney down the back alleys of their anguish, into regions of the heart he’s never glimpsed, and brings him eye to eye with aberrations that make him question his own sanity. What could drive someone to turn searing private pain to rage in a brilliantly plotted act of horror, challenging even the matchless skills of Edward X. Delaney?
The Tenth Commandment
Little man Josh Biggs, chief private investigator of the law firm of Tabatchnick, Orsini, Reilly, and Teitelbaum, thinks he’s got just another con man on his hands when he’s called to investigate Marvin Reape. Reape’s demanding $50,000 for a piece of information pertaining to the multi-million-dollar estate of Tabatchnick’s close friend – and recent suicide – Sol Kipper. But when another prominent citizen disappears and the wills of both men go missing, Biggs figures it’s the least he can do to ask around.
When Reape turns up under a local subway and his wife joins him a couple of days later, the stakes get higher as lives – and millions – hang in the balance. The mystery turns to horror as Biggs realizes he must track a team of killers who have turned religion into a racket for revenge….