John Verdon's newest mystery-thriller featuring retired NYPD homicide detective Dave Gurney is
Wolf Lake. One of the author's ten best whodunits, as shared at
Publishers Weekly:
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
This is the book Thomas Harris wrote before he wrote The Silence of the Lambs. I found it remarkable for its inventive serial-killer plot, for its vivid and believable portrayal of the psychopath at the heart of it, and for Harris’s ability to paint pictures you’re not likely to forget. It’s also the book in which Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the iconic Harris monster, first appears.
Read about
the other entries on the list.
Red Dragon appears on
Laura McHugh's list of ten favorite books about serial killers,
Kimberly Turner's list of the ten most disturbing sociopaths in literature, John Mullan's lists of
ten of the best dragons in literature and
ten of the best tattoos in literature, and
the (U.K.) Telegraph 110 best books; Andre Gross says "
it should be taught as [a text] in Thriller 101."
--Marshal Zeringue
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