Berkley, New York, 2009, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 978-0-425-22798-5.  Large MMPB, 453 pages followed by excerpt from Wicked Prey.  Very good; light edge and cover wear, reading creases on spine; binding sound; ink initial on verso of front wrap, remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  ‘After one troubled college student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper.  Unfortunately, the clues aren’t adding up – and then there’s the young Goth girl who keeps appearing and disappearing.  Where does she come from?  Where does she go every night?  And why does Lucas keep getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else going on here?  Something very bad, very dark, and as elusive as a phantom …’ (from first page)