Daniel Caruso is a closeted man with a wife and daughter who gets a little action when he's away at a conference. Then he gets a bloody package in the mail that could only be a piece of the man he'd slept with. What's a guy to do?
At no point does he make anything resembling a rational decision. Let's start lying to the police, constantly. Let's start fucking around with more random dudes - even after they keep turning up dead - all the while whining about how hard his life is. The killer hardly needs to start making Daniel provide him more victims.
With only a short list of who the killer might be, it becomes pretty obvious early on who it actually is - think those early Scooby Doos where the killer was Old Man Jones - the only other person. If the book weren't so short I never would have finished it.… (altro)
I enjoyed this book and read it in a couple of days. It was intriging and full of cultural information about how others live and their belifes. At times I found it a little difficult to follow the story and the characters but overall I liked it. I would recommend this book. Why was a childs skull delivered to one brother from another and the link of the skull with the events of Sept. 11, 2001
Zebrun's novel is short and tightly written. The story revolves around Daniel Caruso, a closeted man who becomes inextricably entangled in a world of violence, sexual adventure, and subterfuge when he receives a gruesome package in the mail. The package contains a severed body part belonging to his most recent one-night-stand, an attractive male firefighter. Daniel soon realizes that rather than the sophisticated sexual risk-taker he imagines himself to be, he is really a vulnerable family man with a secret and a lot to lose.
Zebrun is adept at the art of understated menace, allowing the reader to follow Daniel as he is drawn further and further from the safety of his life with his family into an alien world that is (because of the stalker/killer's attentions) becoming more and more terrifying to him. The story unfolds in the details, each one drawing Daniel and the killer closer to the final confrontation.
I have an enduring fascination with serial killer novels that has lead me through a fair number of police procedurals and detective novels. The surprise ending in this book sets it apart from the serial killer convention. Not only does the killer escape, but he kills Daniel in the final chapter of the novel, which is completely unexepected in a first-peron narrative.… (altro)
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At no point does he make anything resembling a rational decision. Let's start lying to the police, constantly. Let's start fucking around with more random dudes - even after they keep turning up dead - all the while whining about how hard his life is. The killer hardly needs to start making Daniel provide him more victims.
With only a short list of who the killer might be, it becomes pretty obvious early on who it actually is - think those early Scooby Doos where the killer was Old Man Jones - the only other person. If the book weren't so short I never would have finished it.… (altro)