Answer:

Answer by admin on Thu 08, Mar 2007 01:48pm:

It sounds a bit like "The Witches' Hammer" (1994) by Jane Stanton
Hitchcock.


"...Beatrice O'Connell is confronted with the murder of her book collector
father the day after he receives an ancient book of evil spells. She feels
the police are apathetic and vows to find her father's murderer and is
convinced the answer lies in the little book. She descends to Spanish
Harlem to meet with an occultist and meets a totally erotic, sensual man.
She goes with him and realizes her inner "wolf" woman. She returns from the
wild and steamy assignation a charged and changed woman. She discovers an
evil cabal within the Catholic Church who are willing to go to any lengths
to recover the now lost book."
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525936416?ie=UTF8&tag=whatsthatbook-20&linkCode=as2


Additional description: 

"In New York, a woman uncovers an occult conspiracy to reimpose the
supremacy of men in our society and destroy all feminists. Beatrice
O'Connell stumbles on it as she investigates a 15th Century grimoire, a
handbook of black magic."

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subjects:
Book collectors -- Fiction. 
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. 
Witches -- Fiction.
Witchcraft, Satanism - Fiction
Catholics, Catholic Church - Fiction 
Mystery fiction. 
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.