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The Serial Killers Club : a Novel by Povey, Jeff is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
From Publishers Weekly British author Povey, who has written for such TV shows as the BBC's Eastenders , makes a real splash with his first novel, a darkly comic spoof of the serial killer genre. When the anonymous narrator, who combines a blithe Bertie Wooster–like innocence with a psychopathic taste for slaughter, "accidentally" kills a mass murderer, he assumes the man's identity. An odd set of personal advertisements lure the narrator to Chicago, where he encounters the club of the book's title. Since the club's members adopt the names of movie stars as aliases, he decides to become Douglas Fairbanks Jr. "Doug" quickly moves from shock and fear to preying on his fellow club members, attracting the notice of a bizarre FBI agent, who offers to let him off the hook if he finishes off the rest of them. This satirical black comedy won't be to everyone's taste, but many will find it a refreshing change from the paint-by-the-numbers profiler vs. psychotic fiend offerings. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From It didn't take long for Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004) to spawn an imitator. Povey's first
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Povey, Jeff
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780446616645
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers
- Rating
- 3.22 / 5 (1,138 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13