Normal
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- ¥600
発行者による作品情報
"Hypnotic and chilling — you won't forget this in a hurry." – Lee Child
NOMINATED FOR THE STRAND CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF 2015
He lives on your street, in a nice house with a tidy garden. He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He’s the perfect neighbour. But he also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage.
And he thinks it’s perfectly normal to kidnap young women and keep them captive.
This is how it’s been for a long time. It’s normal…and it works. Perfectly.
But this time it’s different
Praise for Normal
'Creepy yet genuinely funny, I didn't like NORMAL, I loved it.'- Michael Robotham
Reviews
‘Deeply creepy and very clever story told from the point of view of a nameless and rather charming, apparently “normal” bloke, who happens to be a serial killer. A cunning idea, well executed, if you pardon the pun’
Heat
'Utterly compelling'
Jamie Mason, author of Three Graves Full
'If you only read one crime book this year, I’d tell you to read this one. Utterly brilliant'
rebeccabradleycrime.com
‘Blackly humorous …. This gripping tale leaves the reader feeling conflicted as they find themselves rooting for the killer. Normal marks Cameron out as one to watch’
Daily Express
About the author
Graeme Cameron lives with his family in Norfolk.
Normal is his first novel. He is currently working on a new thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A highly unusual serial killer is the star of British author Cameron's blackly humorous first novel. The nameless narrator first appears to fit the stereotype of a meticulous killer untroubled by normal emotions. He researched 18-year-old Sarah Abbott, who was taking a year off from school before heading to Oxford, killed her in her house, and carefully cleaned up afterward. On returning to his van, however, he discovers that he has locked its keys inside. A brick through the van's window solves that problem, but later, back at the victim's house, he runs into a friend of Sarah's, Erica Shaw, who winds up in a cage in the basement of the narrator's garage. His bumbling continues throughout. In a big departure from the standard serial killer trope, he begins nonpredatory relationships with three different women. He even falls in love with one of them. Those who have no trouble accepting a humanized serial killer will be most satisfied.
