The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel) : In this gripping thriller, Jeffery Deaver takes readers on a terrifying ride into two ingenious minds…that of a physically challenged detective and the scheming killer he must stop. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology– amassing a psychological profile of the man they’re looking for based on the details of his crimes. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler’s intellect and Moore’s knowledge of New York’s vast criminal underworld. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or “alienist.” On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan’s infamous brothels. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. The Alienist: The year is 1896, the place, New York City.

His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of The Silence of the Lambs–an unforgettable classic of suspense fiction.

Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. The Silence of the Lambs : As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames “Buffalo Bill,” FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. You can click on the images to check out the Amazon page for each book. The character of the serial killer is the central part of all the titles we have picked and we hope you find this list useful. Therefore we looked at the books we have read during the last 15 years and also talk to the active members of several crime fiction communities to pick 10 books in which not only have great stories but also great killers. But in most of these novels, the character of serial killer is just one element in the story and not the biggest part of the plot. These days, it’s hard to find great serial killer novels but also hard to find a crime fiction which doesn’t include a serial killer: A single death might seem to boring or insignificant to shape a novel around.

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