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In his classic works of true crime, Harry MacLean examined the dark side of America and its fascination with violence. In *The Joy of Killing*, he builds upon this expert knowledge to create a page-turning literary thriller -- an exciting combination of love story, mystery, psychological suspense, and meditation on human nature and the origins of violence.This fever dream begins on a stormy fall night at a lake house in the north woods of Minnesota, where we are introduced to a college professor who a few years earlier had written a novel in which he justified a gruesome campus murder under the nihilistic theory that there is no right or wrong, no moral center to man's activity. The writer returns to the lake house where he had spent his childhood summers and locks himself in the attic, intent on writing the final story of his life. Playing on a continuous loop in his mind are key moments in his past: his childhood in small-town Iowa, where he and his best friend befriended a local drifter; his childhood on the lake where one summer a local boy drowned in a storm; and the central fixation of his erotic meeting with a girl on a train bound for Chicago when he was just fifteen. All o

Who reads The Joy of Killing : A Novel?

Author

MacLean, Harry

Publisher

Counterpoint LLC

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781619026452

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, True Crime, Thriller

Rating

3.8 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14