Looking for a story!

[LillyO]

Not really I was curious if anyone here has ever read "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind or "The Killer inside me" by Jim Thompson?

I’m looking for the best serial killer fiction book ever written. I haven’t been able to find much consensus on all the lists I checked, but those two popped up on many of them.

Any suggestions?

 

[pointless]

i'm sorry.

Let's call the sheriff a cock-sucker
See if he's read "The Killer Inside Me"

i'm done.

 

[LillyO]

i'm done.

Years ago really.

 

[Peregrinator]

http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Dreams-Tim-Cahill/dp/0553258362

 

[LillyO]

http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Dreams-Tim-Cahill/dp/0553258362

Thank you.

I am really looking for fiction but i will have a peek.

 

[Peregrinator]

Thank you.

I am really looking for fiction but i will have a peek.

Oh, I just assumed true crime stuff, sorry. Either way, Cahill is a great, engaging storyteller.

 

[sweepthefloor]

I don't know about the best, I haven't read that many serial killer stories.

I did like Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain.

 

[LillyO]

I don't know about the best, I haven't read that many serial killer stories.

I did like Heartsick, by Chelsea Cain.

Ohhh thank you, I just looked it up on amazon and looks pretty interesting.

 

[pointless]

Years ago really.

well, that was bitchy.

 

[Radiohead]

The Green river killer book is great.

If you're not after true to life, I'm not sure... theres more quality out there, but I couldn't point you anywhere really. Not so strangely its easier to write about dreams/fantasies than true to life.

 

[LillyO]

The Green river killer book is great.

If you're not after true to life, I'm not sure... theres more quality out there, but I couldn't point you anywhere really. Not so strangely its easier to write about dreams/fantasies than true to life.

To close to home. I read one book about him and felt so dirty afterwards i threw the book away when i finished.

 

[LillyO]

well, that was bitchy.

<<<<<Postpartum psychosis.

 

[ImSinister]

I have read Perfume. It is a very different book. I can't say I loved it but I couldn't stop reading it and it stayed in my mind well after I was finished. Odd but in engrossing way. Did you ever just become deeply engrossed in a conversation with someone and when asked later by another if you liked the person you answered "no, not really but they were interesting."?

 

[drtyyoleman]

Not really I was curious if anyone here has ever read "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind or "The Killer inside me" by Jim Thompson?

I’m looking for the best serial killer fiction book ever written. I haven’t been able to find much consensus on all the lists I checked, but those two popped up on many of them.

Any suggestions?

I know I am going to get slammed for this but I KOVE the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. (Think 'Kiss The Girls')
I don't know why they intrigue me so much but they do.

 

[Lorilei]

Not really I was curious if anyone here has ever read "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind or "The Killer inside me" by Jim Thompson?

I’m looking for the best serial killer fiction book ever written. I haven’t been able to find much consensus on all the lists I checked, but those two popped up on many of them.

Any suggestions?

I read "Perfume" years ago. It was...unsettling, and stuck with me for a long time after I read it.

 

[lovetoread]

I prefer real life serial killers, so I don't know much about fiction stories.

But I did my first term paper on the green river killer.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Ohhh thank you, I just looked it up on amazon and looks pretty interesting.

You're welcome, I couldn't put it down.

 

[JohnnySavage]

I prefer real life serial killers, so I don't know much about fiction stories.

But I did my first term paper on the green river killer.

That Night Stalker guy just died.

 

[lovetoread]

That Night Stalker guy just died.

I didn't know that.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not really I was curious if anyone here has ever read "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind or "The Killer inside me" by Jim Thompson?

I’m looking for the best serial killer fiction book ever written. I haven’t been able to find much consensus on all the lists I checked, but those two popped up on many of them.

Any suggestions?

Ghoul by Michael Slade.

Sick as hell book featuring a serial killer(or is it several?) with a nice horror type feel to it

This link is for a first edition, but you can find it anywhere in paperback.

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-publi...370704221&sr=1-6&keywords=ghoul+michael+slade

Head hunter by Slade is also pretty good as well as disturbing

 

[lovecraft68]

I prefer real life serial killers, so I don't know much about fiction stories.

But I did my first term paper on the green river killer.

Ever read Mind Hunter by John Douglas?

he is the originator of the FBI profiling division. he was the real life "criminal minds"

The book is his biography and there is some amazing behind the scene insight into a lot of the modern day serial killers.

Guy got so far into their heads he ended up having a breakdown

 

[lovetoread]

Ever read Mind Hunter by John Douglas?

he is the originator of the FBI profiling division. he was the real life "criminal minds"

The book is his biography and there is some amazing behind the scene insight into a lot of the modern day serial killers.

Guy got so far into their heads he ended up having a breakdown

Yea, I read it. It wasn't bad.

It's hard to find a well written "serial killer" book that actually goes into both the murdered and the murderer.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yea, I read it. It wasn't bad.

It's hard to find a well written "serial killer" book that actually goes into both the murdered and the murderer.

True.

Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon" was excellent.

Francis Dolarhyde was a sick, but sympathetic killer.

They don't really get into the mind of the murdered, but Graham the profiler does a good job of doing it.

Lecter ii in it, but in a minor role and the book is much better the movie that tried to involve him more than he was.

 

[LillyO]

I know I am going to get slammed for this but I KOVE the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. (Think 'Kiss The Girls')
I don't know why they intrigue me so much but they do.

Not by me, have read "kiss the girls before and i enjoyed it.

 

[LillyO]

I have read Perfume. It is a very different book. I can't say I loved it but I couldn't stop reading it and it stayed in my mind well after I was finished. Odd but in engrossing way. Did you ever just become deeply engrossed in a conversation with someone and when asked later by another if you liked the person you answered "no, not really but they were interesting."?

(I read "Perfume" years ago. It was...unsettling, and stuck with me for a long time after I read it.)


I think I am going to buy this one fer shures, though I have to admit the "stuck with me for days" does give me pause.

Thank you both.