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Title: this is original?
Review: A serial killer who helps the police solve murders?? Didn't we have that character last millenium in Hannibal Lecter?? And like Lecter's creator Thomas Harris, Jeff Lindsay becomes an apologist for serial killers with logic that goes something like this: "If you've been badly abused as a child, and you attempt to appease your homicidal psychoses created by this abuse by killing people that you deem worthy of death by torture, then it's acceptable to be a serial killer." PLEASE!! Harris made a mistake when he tried to rationalize the monster Lecter's bestial nature by explaining it away as the result of torture by the Nazis. Lindsay tries to convince the reader to wallow in his psychopath's unapologetic killings by turning him into a nihilistic crimefighter. Neither explanation works.I only made it through the first third of the book, so if I missed some major shift in character later on, others will doubtless take me to task.
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