Benoit Akoa
BOOKS ABOUT SERIAL KILLERS - TRUE CRIMES
The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008:
Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg
Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly.
Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly
crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect
his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always
a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that
has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the
help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues.
Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't
want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --Dave Callanan
Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murder by Phillip C. H. Shon (Editor), Dragan Milovanovic (Editor)
This is about the monsters amongst us:
Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murder, edited by Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic, is a collection of ten chapters on the nature, expression, development, and possible responses to this recently popularized form of crime. These forms of serial killings not only involve continuous killings but some form of perverse sexual relations with the victim or body of the victim. Perhaps brought to public attention by some dramatic cases such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Robert Bundy, John Gacy, Denis Rader, and popular media presentation such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), the examination of this phenomenon is only recently entering more scholarly scrutiny.
This book includes various notable scholars in the field, from theoreticians to practitioners, and is divided into three parts. The first part develops theories of sexual homicide and the development of predatory laws. It examines the history of serial lust homicide, definitions, and motivational models. It also includes attempts at integrative approaches.
The second part develops such forms of lust serial killing as piquerism, paraphilia, and necrophilia. The third part concerns the effects of the media, as well as phenomenological, existential, and ""edgework"" oriented approaches. Serial Killers not only brings the phenomenon under a keen theoretical and empirical investigation, shedding more scholarly insights on the phenomena, but it suggests methods for developing research hypotheses for academicians and for presenting practitioners with further insights into the field
INSTANT MESSENGER by Benoit Akoa
This review is from an Amazon.com customer:
Set primarily in Maine, this pulse-pounding serial killer thriller is the story of an abused child who grows up in a violent household ridden with poverty to become a vicious/sadistic serial killer--George. His indispensable drug dealing accolades, Johnny Knight and Richard Doyle play crucial roles in his becoming a major player in the New England drug trade--All while he (George) is honing his murderous craft. The story unfolds with a series of back flashes, along with a host of colorful characters.
These well-defined minor characters and the engaging narrative make the back flashes interesting and cause the forward movement of the story seamless.
It is rich with vivid and sometimes gruesome detail of abuse and subsequent murder scenes. The Instant Messenger exchanges between characters are detailed, and not unlike how I would imagine people expressing themselves on their computers behind closed doors.
The introduction of a major character, Faye Patterson, further into the story demonstrates Akoa's attempt to produce a different type of serial killer thriller. The latter, along with the theme of interracial serial murder makes this read quit a unique experience.
This is a striking debut novel and the character of George is at first brutal and repulsive but the story uncovers a human side besides all his abject grimness.
Instant Messenger is in Kindle for $9.99 and also available in ebook format at Barnes and Nobles for $7.99
Serial Killers: Up close and Personal- inside the world of Torturers by Christopher Berry-Dee, Christopher Barry-Dee, Christopher Barry Dee
Synopsis:
The headline-grabbing crime. The grizzly facts in the coroner's report. The shocking revelations from the trial. Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal provides all these details plus one more: the murderer's first-person perspective — Revealing quotes from convicted killers add an even more frightening element to these chilling accounts. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, author Christopher Berry-Dee goes deep into the bowels of the world's toughest prisons to face these monsters and hear their stories. Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal presents a disturbing and unflinching look into the homicidal mind.
What a reader said about this book
This is a great book, that takes you into the killers background. How they got the way they did. Very graphic information as to how they tortured and killed their victims. I would definately reccomend this book.
Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the the World Tell Their Own Stories
by Christopher Berry-Dee
Synopsis
An investigative criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee is a man who talks to serial killers. In this book, their pursuit of horror and violence is described in their own words, transcribed from audio and videotape interviews conducted deep inside some of the toughest prisons in the world. Berry-Dee describes the circumstances of his meetings with some of the world's most evil men, and reproduces their very words as they describe their crimes and discuss their remorse—or lack of it. This work offers a penetrating insight into the workings of the criminal mind.
Killing for Sport: Inside the Minds of Serial Killers Updated by Pat Brown
A renegade criminal profiler goes beyond the complex technical language and psychobabble often used when discussing serial killers to actually tell it like it is. Brown's work is an honest portrayal of the predator-next-door: how he hunts for victims, why he tortures them, and where he tends to stash their bodies.
Biography
Pat Brown can be seen on TruT.V.'s crime series, I-Detective. She became an Investigative Criminal Profiler after her local police proved ineffective in investigating a murder suspect to which she unknowingly rented a room. As CEO of S.H.E., Brown has dedicated her time to helping the victims of serial killers and their families. She lives in Maryland and Minnesota.
The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008:
Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,
there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg
Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly.
Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly
crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect
his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch--and there's always
a catch--is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a mysterious disappearance that
has remained unsolved for nearly four decades. With few other options, he accepts and enlists the
help of investigator Lisbeth Salander, a misunderstood genius with a cache of authority issues.
Little is as it seems in Larsson's novel, but there is at least one constant: you really don't
want to mess with the girl with the dragon tattoo. --Dave Callanan
This is about the monsters amongst us:
Serial Killers: Understanding Lust Murder, edited by Phillip C. Shon and Dragan Milovanovic, is a collection of ten chapters on the nature, expression, development, and possible responses to this recently popularized form of crime. These forms of serial killings not only involve continuous killings but some form of perverse sexual relations with the victim or body of the victim. Perhaps brought to public attention by some dramatic cases such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Robert Bundy, John Gacy, Denis Rader, and popular media presentation such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), the examination of this phenomenon is only recently entering more scholarly scrutiny.
This book includes various notable scholars in the field, from theoreticians to practitioners, and is divided into three parts. The first part develops theories of sexual homicide and the development of predatory laws. It examines the history of serial lust homicide, definitions, and motivational models. It also includes attempts at integrative approaches.
The second part develops such forms of lust serial killing as piquerism, paraphilia, and necrophilia. The third part concerns the effects of the media, as well as phenomenological, existential, and ""edgework"" oriented approaches. Serial Killers not only brings the phenomenon under a keen theoretical and empirical investigation, shedding more scholarly insights on the phenomena, but it suggests methods for developing research hypotheses for academicians and for presenting practitioners with further insights into the field
This review is from an Amazon.com customer:
Set primarily in Maine, this pulse-pounding serial killer thriller is the story of an abused child who grows up in a violent household ridden with poverty to become a vicious/sadistic serial killer--George. His indispensable drug dealing accolades, Johnny Knight and Richard Doyle play crucial roles in his becoming a major player in the New England drug trade--All while he (George) is honing his murderous craft. The story unfolds with a series of back flashes, along with a host of colorful characters.
These well-defined minor characters and the engaging narrative make the back flashes interesting and cause the forward movement of the story seamless.
It is rich with vivid and sometimes gruesome detail of abuse and subsequent murder scenes. The Instant Messenger exchanges between characters are detailed, and not unlike how I would imagine people expressing themselves on their computers behind closed doors.
The introduction of a major character, Faye Patterson, further into the story demonstrates Akoa's attempt to produce a different type of serial killer thriller. The latter, along with the theme of interracial serial murder makes this read quit a unique experience.
This is a striking debut novel and the character of George is at first brutal and repulsive but the story uncovers a human side besides all his abject grimness.
Instant Messenger is in Kindle for $9.99 and also available in ebook format at Barnes and Nobles for $7.99
Synopsis:
The headline-grabbing crime. The grizzly facts in the coroner's report. The shocking revelations from the trial. Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal provides all these details plus one more: the murderer's first-person perspective — Revealing quotes from convicted killers add an even more frightening element to these chilling accounts. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, author Christopher Berry-Dee goes deep into the bowels of the world's toughest prisons to face these monsters and hear their stories. Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal presents a disturbing and unflinching look into the homicidal mind.
What a reader said about this book
This is a great book, that takes you into the killers background. How they got the way they did. Very graphic information as to how they tortured and killed their victims. I would definately reccomend this book.
by Christopher Berry-Dee
Synopsis
An investigative criminologist, Christopher Berry-Dee is a man who talks to serial killers. In this book, their pursuit of horror and violence is described in their own words, transcribed from audio and videotape interviews conducted deep inside some of the toughest prisons in the world. Berry-Dee describes the circumstances of his meetings with some of the world's most evil men, and reproduces their very words as they describe their crimes and discuss their remorse—or lack of it. This work offers a penetrating insight into the workings of the criminal mind.
A renegade criminal profiler goes beyond the complex technical language and psychobabble often used when discussing serial killers to actually tell it like it is. Brown's work is an honest portrayal of the predator-next-door: how he hunts for victims, why he tortures them, and where he tends to stash their bodies.
Biography
Pat Brown can be seen on TruT.V.'s crime series, I-Detective. She became an Investigative Criminal Profiler after her local police proved ineffective in investigating a murder suspect to which she unknowingly rented a room. As CEO of S.H.E., Brown has dedicated her time to helping the victims of serial killers and their families. She lives in Maryland and Minnesota.
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All Movie Guide In the 2001 documentary Serial Killers: Real Life Hannibal Lecters, director Sean Buckley profiles five of the most infamous and deadly serial killers of the 20th century, each of whom has inspired a number of big-screen fictional murderers. Featuring interviews with experts as well as the monsters themselves, the film attempts to offer insight into the minds and lives of John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Andrei Chikatilo, and Albert Fish. Matthew Tobey DVD Chapters:
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John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he’s written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation. Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t demand or expect the empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there’s something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means. Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can’t control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could. Dan Wells’s debut novel is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams. |
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| Such Good Boys: The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons And a Horrifying Murder : Product Description-AN ABUSIVE MOTHER Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother’s verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room. His fifteen-year-old half brother Matthew Montejo also was a victim to Jane Bautista’s dark mood swings and erratic behavior, but for some reason, Jason received the brunt of the abuse—until he decided he’d had enough… A SON’S REVENGE On the night of January 14, 2003, Jason strangled his mother. To keep authorities from identifying her body, he chopped off her head and hands, an idea he claimed he got from watching an episode of the hit TV series “The Sopranos.” Matthew would later testify in court that he sat in another room in the house with the TV volume turned up while Jason murdered their mother. He also testified that he drove around with Jason to find a place to dump Jane’s torso. A CRIME THAT WOULD BOND TWO BROTHERS The morning following the murder, Matthew went to school, and Jason returned to his classes at Cal State San Bernardino. When authorities zeroed in on them, Jason lied and said that Jane had run off with a boyfriend she’d met on the Internet. But when police confronted the boys with overwhelming evidence, Jason confessed all. Now the nightmare was only just beginning for him… |
Amazon.com Review Research is the strong suit of this book about darkly handsome Richard Ramirez, who terrorized Los Angeles for 14 months in 1984-85 with his penchant for breaking into homes dressed all in black, where he fiercely assaulted, sodomized, robbed, and (in 13 cases) murdered his victims. Carlo spent more than 100 hours interviewing Ramirez on death row, more than a month in El Paso, Texas, talking to Ramirez's family and friends, and another month hanging out with the two detectives who solved the case. He made visits to all 19 crime scenes in the middle of the night. His narrative maintains a steady focus on Ramirez, drawing no conclusions about his Satanism or his mental pathology and simply letting his appalling deeds and words speak for themselves. The trial and post-trial sections are long but interesting, covering Ramirez's rage attacks and his many "groupies" (one of them a juror!), especially Doreen Lloyd, whom he married in September 1996. (This reviewer found Philip Carlo's book much better than Clifford L. Linedecker's Night Stalker.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Richard Ramirez, a Mexican American from El Paso, committed perhaps 14 murders in the Los Angeles area during 1984 and 1985 and wounded several people. While robbery was one of his motives, his main objective, according to Carlo (Stolen Flowers), was to achieve power over the women in the houses he entered, to rape, torture and humiliate them. He saw himself as committing his crimes in the service of Satan and expressed contempt for conventional morality. Stubborn and with a vicious temper, he insisted on being represented by two young lawyers who had never been involved in a capital case. Found guilty in 1989, Ramirez was given 19 death sentences plus six years for each of 33 other charges. Carlo speculates on the psyche of this chilling killer and introduces an intriguing supporting cast, from the prosecutor, who saw the case as good versus evil, to the alternate juror who "fell in love with" the defendant. An exceptionally well-told true-crime tale. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Product Description West Coast newspaper readers had begun to dread the headlines. One by one, the missing Hollywood young women were discovered brutally strangled after being sexually violated time after time. There seemed to be no end to the killing—and no clues to the killer. Certainly Ken Bianchi was not a suspect. Ken was handsome, gentle, friendly, married, a doting father and a member of the Sheriff's Reserve. No one suspected the truth about Ken Bianchi— not even Ken Bianchi himself. For two years, while the infamous Hillside Strangler terrorized the West Coast, Ken Bianchi watched protectively over the woman he loved, fearing she would become the killer's next target. But it was Ken himself who was to be the Hillside Strangler's most tragic victim. This book is the dramatic psychological study of a brutal killer, whose crimes of rape and murder were gruesome secrets he kept even from himself. Victim of a multiple personality disorder, Ken Bianchi led a strange and terrible triple life. He worked hard to support Kelli and their infant son, Sean. But as the shadowy, amoral Billy, he watched a third personality, the vicious, vengeful Steve strangle well over a dozen young women after sexually assaulting them. Bianchi seemed absolutely sincere in his claims of innocence when the police finally traced the crimes to him. But months of psychiatric examinations and hypnosis revealed to his shock and horror that, although he had no recollection of the murders, the evidence against him was so overwhelming, he could no longer deny his involvement. Written with exclusive information gleaned from countless conversations with Bianchi, his girlfriend, his psychiatrists, as well as policemen and journalists involved with the case. The Hillside Strangler is the inside story of one of the most elusive and bizarre mass-murders in American history. New 2004 edition, updated by the author. A feature movie, The Hillside Strangler produced by Chris Phillips ("Nightstalker") and starring Clifton Collins, Jr, is currently being filmed. |
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