THE KILLER INSIDE ME by Jim ThompsonRead about the other entries on the list.
Thompson was less well-known than Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler but this is more hardboiled, like American Psycho written 30 years before Bret Easton Ellis did so. What I liked was his minimalistic language but he still revealed character in every sentence.
The Killer Inside Me is among Henry Sutton's top ten novels with unreliable narrators.
--Marshal Zeringue