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Murder by Numbers - Anna Gekowski

Description: Author: Anna Gekoski / Genre: Crime / Thriller / An insight into the upbringings that created some of Britain's most dangerous men and women.

Newest Review: ... of the here and now, and yet possessed of that quality of evil that separates it from the ‘normal’. Is it any ... more

... wonder that Robert Ressler, ex-FBI and the man who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’, entitles his books ‘I Have Lived In The Monster’ and ‘Whoever Fights Monsters’. Demonisation is the name of the game; in this secular and confused age we’ll invent devils to frighten ourselves, and, just as importantly, to confirm to us the parameters of our ‘normality’. Which brings us in a round about way to Anna Gekoski’s ‘Murder By Numbers’. This is a det...more

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Murder by Numbers - Anna Gekowski: Hannibal's got nothing on these people... (452 words)
by pan - written on 10/09/01 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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If there’s one thing the world needs more than another serial killer it’s another serial killer book. Right? Someone ought to chart the rise of serial killings against the number of words the subject generates. What’s the correlation? Not that I’m going to do a Colin Wilson and blame serial killing on pornography, or even on the pornography of true crime writing. It’s just that with the death of religion we’re no longer scared of Satan, hell or eternal damnation. The supernatural, currently undergoing a bit of a revival, doesn’t frighten most of us. Instead we like to scare ourselves with something of the here and now, and yet ...

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