![]() ![]() His victims are generally reduced to the generic type their killer prefers and remain somehow abstract. Serial-killer novels often concentrate on an attempt to understand causation or motivation of the killer. Still he is the only character speaking in the first person and addressing the reader directly. He does not have all that much to say along the way as the bulk of the novel is focussed on three women - his mother, the twin sister of one of his victims, and the woman detective who is finally instrumental in his arrest. The person under sentence is a multiple killer and he does indeed write some notes about his final day on death row, but he finds it difficult to remain clinically detached, as who wouldn't? He begins his notes twelve hours before his date with the executioner writing in the present tense as an observer might, but he will end dissolved in tears. While the title might suggest a detached, even clinical, approach to an execution, the book itself is far from either. ![]()
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