Random : A terrifying and highly inventive debut thriller (Paperback)

from expat-bookworm

I spent the past week immersed in the mind of a serial killer. Many of the police procedurals that I enjoy reading are told in first person from the viewpoint of the detective. Still others may have the story told by the victim. But I don't recall having read a mystery before about a sadistic ser...

from maneekuhi

Terrific Novel. Move over Denise Mina - there is new Glasgow crime fiction royalty. "Random" is about a killer who devises what he perceives to be a random method to select most of his victims. To ensure that the police have no doubt as to these being serial murders, he posts a common souvenir to...

from maneekuhi

This is my 2nd reading of this book, something I never do. But #2, Snapshot is just out and I wanted to familiarize myself with the details and characters of the first again. Completed 7/28, rated 5.0 Told from the POV of a serial killer. Slowly we learn why he is doing what he is doing and we be...

from austcrimefiction

One of the things that I really like about reading review books is that I constantly find absolutes in my reading tastes aren't. Ask me about serial killer books before reading RANDOM and I would have categorically stated been there, over it. Add being inside the serial killer's head for the enti...

from pammykn

AUTHOR Robertson, Craig TITLE: Random DATE READ: 02/27/2016 RATING 4.5/B+ GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/ 2010/ Simon & Shuster / 329 pgs SERIES/STAND-ALONE: #1 DS Rachel Narey CHARACTERS The Cutter/serial killer TIME/PLACE: 2009 / Glasgow Scotland FIRST LINES She was talking but...