Tender prey /
Patricia Roberts
- New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., c1983
- 263 pages ; 22 cm.
In a rough Irish neighborhood of Brooklyn, during the 1930s, a little girl becomes the victim of kidnapping and a brutal, ritual murder. With the help of 14-year-old Ali James, Detective Jim Hackett tries to get into the mind of Ali's demented stepfather who has taken away Ali's sister and enacted his satanic fantasies on her