Mario the lone bookwolf's Reviews > The Crucifix Killer

If one is bored of murders and investigations with emotional and family backgrounds, revenge, really personal reasons for killing, and far too much room for the boring, normal, not mentally sick victims and perpetrators, this badass serial killer focused series is your read of choice.

When profession and hobby fuse and form a new job perspective, some of the most amazing authors see the light of the literary day. Scientists writing Sci-Fi, enthusiastic lovers writing romance novels, politicians writing fantasy novels, it´s always a match made in heaven, or hell in case of the last example, because they are at a level of professionality someone who hasn´t earned a real qualification before living from inspiring and astonishing millions of people with their wonderful novels, can´t reach that level of detail and credibility. That´s also the reason why some of the best authors have studied and taught creative writing.

And here comes Carter, a forensic psychologist who worked in this job and creates a hard boiled, snarky, fast paced, extremely brutal, my instant favorite, psychothriller, extreme horror genre, the accurate, realistic, highly sociopathic serial killer illuminating genre. It reminds me of Gerritsen, whose newer works I am wanting to read if my thriller writing motivation should escalate once again, who used her expertise as a doctor to pimp her amazing novels.

I just, subjectively, deem the end a bit unsatisfying, I just don´t like how the motives are explained because (view spoiler)[ it´s just a revenge theme and I was much more hoping for a mental illness explanations, madness, and long monologues of the highly motivated torturer and killer. It would have been cooler with a full blood lunatic like in his other books. (hide spoiler)] But that´s subjective and the series gets better with each novel, so why don´t immediately start if you dare.

Gosh, I nearly forgot mentioning, this is really hardcore, reminds me of the bonkers extreme horror genre just very weird people are reading, whistling coughing, so just enter if you can handle it. Especially in the later parts of the series I´ve already read, the killers, their victims, and their intimate relationships and private activities are in the main focus.

A wiki walk can be as refreshing to the mind as a walk through nature in this completely overrated real life outside books: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_...