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Title details for The Serialist by David Gordon - Available

The Serialist

A Novel

by David Gordon
Bronson Pinchot
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In this stylish, darkly funny psychological thriller, a struggling writer finds his life suddenly resembling one of his own pulp novels when a convicted serial killer hires him to write his memoir.

All Harry Bloch knows about catching a serial killer is what he has learned from his own books. But Harry's life takes a sudden dramatic turn when The Photo Killer, a high-profile murderer who claims to be innocent, asks Harry to write his memoir. No sooner has Harry begun his research than several women are murdered in The Photo Killer's signature style, just hours after Harry interviewed them. Now Harry is a prime suspect— or is he the killer's next target? Forced to play detective in a real-life murder mystery plot, Harry begins to seek the real killer and turns up more than he could have imagined.

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  • Release date

    March 9, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481569446
      • File size: 246876 KB
      • Duration: 08:34:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Failed author Harry Bloch writes a sex-fantasy column called "Slut Whisperer" for a HUSTLER-type magazine and ghostwrites student papers on the side. This darkly comic character offers a well-met challenge for narrator Bronson Pinchot. When Bloch is summoned by serial killer Darien Clay, who is on death row, to write his true confessions, Pinchot's storytelling ably transitions from the narrative voice of the self-deprecating Jewish author to that of the truly evil man in prison. Other characters who are well portrayed are Clay's hard-bitten attorney, Bloch's teenaged business manager for the ghostwriting business, and the stripper sister of one of Clay's victims, who becomes Bloch's lover. Gordon's thriller is interspersed with bizarre voyages into Bloch's soft-porn vampire and fantasy tales. Pinchot negotiates all these elements with alacrity and humor. D.P.D. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 18, 2010
      A seedy freelance writer provides the wry narrative voice for Gordon's winning debut, a darkly humorous thriller. New Yorker Harry Bloch, who once had lofty literary ambitions, has spent the past two decades as a hack, mostly as an advice columnist called the Slut Whisperer for Raunchy
      magazine. Bloch also earns cash by doing homework for affluent private school students, a side business managed by a precocious teenage girl who was the first pupil he was paid to tutor. His boring life takes an unexpected turn after he receives a letter from death-row inmate Darian Clay (aka the Photo Killer), who, as a fan of the Slut Whisperer, thinks Bloch is right for the job of assisting him on his memoirs. In exchange for Clay revealing where he concealed the heads of his female victims, Bloch must seek out women who have written to Clay and write stories about their having sex with the serial killer. A number of plausible plot twists help shift the story from farce to whodunit.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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