Forgotten Books: Blood Marks by Bill Crider

THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 2012

Forgotten Books: Blood Marks by Bill Crider

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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.