![]() The kills are just the cost of what the killer really wants, and seeing that played out is thoroughly disturbing. It is a serial-killer story, I suppose, but the central concept is more skewed than that suggests. What makes it worse, of course, is that the - and let me be clear, Full Horror – sequences are framed by scenes of great tenderness, well observed and tinged with their own fragile pain. But the novel form allows Neil Cross to go Full Horror Writer. It’s not quite as hard to read as, say, Will Carver’s nightmarish HINTON HOLLOW DEATH TRIP, which I still haven’t finished because I don’t want that shit in my head at night. ![]() ![]() That complete experience, though, is fucking horrifying. ![]() Either way – you will get a complete experience off the book. If you have seen LUTHER, then this book will resonate in other, chilling ways. ![]() In fact, if you read this and then watched LUTHER, you’d have an amazing time. Cleverly, it does not require foreknowledge of the show. This is a novel by Neil Cross that is a prequel to his famed BBC TV crime series LUTHER starring the terrific actor and top bloke Idris Elba. I’m referring this one to the discussion of “carnography” as linked below. ![]()
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