Just a quickie to mention that I have just finished reading The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson again. This is either the 4th or 5th time I’ve read the book, I can’t really remember what the score is now.
Once again it struck me just how well written this book is and, although there have been a great many psychological thrillers written by a great many authors, this book still stands at the top of the pile for how effectively the reader faces the chilling mind of a psychopath. It’s mainly the casual approach by Lou Ford that stands out contrasting viciously with the violence he inflicts. The book still holds me in thrall.
It has once again prompted me to dust off my old copies of Jim Thompson favourites as well as the Fredric Brown books that I’ve been jealously rationing so that I can enjoy them over a longer period of time. I can feel a Jim Thompson / Fredric Brown reading marathon coming on and, who knows, I might even get into Mrs Murphy’s Underpants.
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