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I have always been intrigued by serial killers. \u00a0I am so utterly fascinated, in fact, that I\u00a0 scared a student worker at my college library during my freshman year.\u00a0\u00a0I used to go during my\u00a0breaks\u00a0to watch A&E Biography<\/em> videos about serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz in the media lab.\u00a0 One week, he asked what class I was studying for.\u00a0 When I replied that it was “just for fun,” he practically threw the video at me before running and hiding in the back office! \u00a0Luckily, I happened to meet him at a later time\u00a0and was able to set his mind at ease.\u00a0\u00a0Until\u00a0I had\u00a0the chance to explain myself, he called me “the creepy serial killer girl” and worried that I was studying up so I wouldn’t get caught!\u00a0 Though I no longer frequent the library to watch\u00a0videos about serial killers, I have watched enough of them (and reality-based shows like Crossing Jordan<\/em>, Law & Order<\/em>, Castle<\/em>, and Criminal Minds<\/em>) that I have a frighteningly thorough knowledge of serial killer pathology and the methods of the law enforcement officials who try to catch them.\u00a0 When one of my teens told me about this book,\u00a0I knew I had to read it.<\/p>\n Though he is pretty average and a fairly nice guy, most people in town wouldn’t be surprised if Jasper Dent was secretly a serial killer. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because his dad, Billy Dent, killed into the triple digits by the time he was caught. Everyone seems to be afraid that Jasper is a killing spree just waiting to happen; well, everyone except his best friend, Howie, and girlfriend, Connie. \u00a0So, after a dead body shows up in Lobo’s Nod, Jasper is determined to help the police. \u00a0Even though Sheriff G. William Tanner does his best to dissuade him, \u00a0Jasper keeps insisting that he needs to help — because he’s sure it’s a serial killer (even though the police don’t think so), because he knows how serial killers think, and because he wants to clear his own name.<\/p>\n I was enjoying this audiobook so much that I jokingly told my husband I was going to make him listen to it when I was done. \u00a0He agreed that it sounded good, so we decided to actually start it over (even though I was at 96%!) and listen to it together on our weekend roadtrip without the kids. We finished all but half an hour by the time we got home and we couldn’t imagine leaving it for later… So, we listened while we unpacked our bags and sorted laundry! \u00a0Since then, I have read the prequel (an e-novella) and downloaded the second audiobook from OverDrive.com<\/a>. The third book comes out in September on the day after my birthday. \u00a0Coincidence? I think not! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always been intrigued by serial killers. \u00a0I am so utterly fascinated, in fact, that I\u00a0 scared a student worker at my college library during my freshman year.\u00a0\u00a0I used to go during my\u00a0breaks\u00a0to watch A&E Biography videos about serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, and David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz in the media … Continue reading I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}