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[nilchance]

Question: anybody have really really good recs on novels with, by or about serial killers? Movies also acceptable. Will be renting Manhunter later this month. Bonus points if there's "if you stare into the abyss" angst from the person hunting the murderer.

(I'm asking for raven-verse. Trying to get into the killer's head a little.)



- The Hunger Games
- Refuge : an Unnatural History of Family and Place
- A Rush of Wings
- Autobiography of a Face
- Black Magic Woman
- Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers
- My Favorite Earthling
- The Taking
- Undone

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[gwendolen.livejournal.com]

Tess Gerritsen - The Surgeon (and the sequels). Very, very graphic though.

I found the book about Ted Bundy (The Only living WIthness by Stephen G. Michaud, Hugh Aynesworth, and Roy Hazelwood) very fascinating in the attempt to get into the head of a serial killer.

I think Ann Rule also has written several true crime novels about serial killers though I don't know how good they are.

And then there are the classics by Thomas Harris: Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal.

As for tv, I'm very impressed by the British tv shows "Messiah" and by "Wire in the Blood". WIre in the Blood is based on some of the novels of Val McDermit.