THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012
Forgotten Books: Blood Marks by Bill Crider
Now Available for Kindle!
He's smart,
he's attractive, and he has a special vision:
whenever he sees the blood
marks on a woman--marks only he can
see--he knows what he must do.
Kill her. Brutally. And not leave a trace of
himself behind.
Nine women have died so far. And pretty
Casey Buckner may
be next. A young divorcee who's recently
moved into an
apartment complex near the Astrodome,
Casey's already
met three men in the building: a married
accountant, a single writer,
and a psychologist.
One of them is a serial killer. But which one...?
"...Not for gentle tastes, but a striking addition to the
serial- killer subgenre--gory, repugnant, and gripping to its
last ugly reverberation." - Kirkus Reviews
Ed here: I believe that time will judge this novel an
enduring classic.It's rare to see a writer take a
sub-genre as over-worked as the serial killer
novel and make something completely new out of it.
But Bill Crider has done that with Blood Marks.
The milieu is working class Texas and
the cast a group of realistic characters l
iving believable lives and with the killer at work
dying believable deaths. The writing is simple and
forceful and
evocative of its era and its social strata.
And the remarks from the killer are
as dazzling and deranged as any you'll
find in the entire sub-genre. I'd put this
on the same shelf as William Goldman's No Way To
Treat A Lady--that much a slap in the face to
wake you from the slumber inspired by all the other
hackneyed serial killer novels. A triumph.
1 comment:
If you say it's good, Ed, that's good enuf for me!
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