Normal: A Novel, by Graeme Cameron
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Normal: A Novel, by Graeme Cameron
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"The truth is I hurt people. It's what I do. It's all I do. It's all I've ever done."
He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him.
What you don't know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will—one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her.
This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal…and it works. Perfectly.
Then he meets the checkout girl from the 24-hour grocery. And now the plan, the hunts, the room…the others. He doesn't need any of them anymore. He needs only her. But just as he decides to go straight, the police start to close in. He might be able to cover his tracks, except for one small problem—he still has someone trapped in his garage.
Discovering his humanity couldn't have come at a worse time.
Normal: A Novel, by Graeme Cameron- Amazon Sales Rank: #850990 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Released on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.40" h x 1.30" w x 5.70" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
- Graeme Cameron
- Psychological
- serial killer
Review "Hypnotic and chilling-you won't forget this in a hurry." -Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author"This is simply a brilliant book-utterly compelling and unforgettable. I loved it." -Jamie Mason, author of Three Graves Full and Monday's Lie"A black comedy...Cameron has written a painfully funny story that's littered with corpses, both intentional and unintentional, and proves that sometimes spotting the craziest person on the block isn't quite as easy as it seems." -Kirkus"Blackly humorous." -Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Graeme Cameron lives with his family in Norfolk, UK. Normal is his first novel.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. "I...warned you that you were playing with fire." By E. Bukowsky "Normal" is Graeme Cameron's depiction of an unnamed killer who had a dysfunctional childhood, but has somehow amassed enough money to do whatever he wants. One of his favorite pastimes is abducting, killing, and dismembering young women.For reasons known only to him, he decides to lock a twenty-year old waitress in a cage for months, but does not immediately kill her, as he did her predecessors. His prisoner is tough and resilient and earns her jailer's grudging respect. Meanwhile, the perpetrator meets a supermarket cashier for whom he develops romantic feelings; she, in return, naively thinks that he is Mr. Right. Can he start over after having committed so many horrific crimes? Throughout the novel, our antihero shows a few traces of humanity, but nevertheless continues to leave a trail of bodies in his wake. He is clever and careful, but ultimately makes mistakes that may come back to haunt him.Some have compared "Normal" to the Dexter series, but Cameron does not have Jeff Lindsay's ability to successfully combine satire, dark humor, and suspense into a coherent narrative. Nor is the protagonist as ingratiating and likeable as Dexter Morgan. The author's central theme--someone may look and act perfectly ordinary, yet be mentally unbalanced--should be obvious to anyone who reads a newspaper. Even those who are fascinated by abnormal psychology may find themselves cringing when this predator slaughters innocent people. Nor does it help that the policemen trying to apprehend him are so dimwitted and ineffectual. Ultimately, it is not particularly enjoyable to spend three hundred pages in the company of this creepy sociopath, even if he has one or two redeeming qualities.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Not your typical serial killer By knittingmom Normal by Graeme Cameron is probably the first book I have read that begins with an extremely twisted serial killer and turns into a love story. While well written, it is difficult for me to wrap my head around what I read. I really enjoy twisted serial killer books, however I am not a real fan of romance novels and mixing the two creates a dilemma for me. Cameron creates the perfect serial killer, he could be anyone, he lives in a nicely kept house in a nicely kept neighborhood, he runs into neighbors everyday, and yet he has a torture chamber of sorts under his garage, however no one would suspect by his polite manner or appearance. So far do good, a lovely creepy serial killer and then the twist, he falls in love with the checker at the 24 hour grocery while shopping for food for his current victim who is caged in his secret basement. Normal begins with a deeply disturbed serial killer and then turns into an almost dark comedy of sorts, when Cameron has his killer fall in love with Rachel. I am not a psychiatrist, therefore I cannot say just how plausible this part is, however it is interesting to read how our sadistic murderer attempts to win Rachel while keeping a prisoner in his hidden basement. As odd as the storyline may sound, Cameron’s masterful writing and story lines keeps the reader fully engaged. My only regret is I did not have someone to discuss the ending of this book.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Dull characters with erratic behavior By Majanka I’ll be honest. I’m not sure what to think of Normal. Usually, when that happens, I browse through other reviews to find points I can relate to, and things I see differently. But with this book, the opinions are so divided I still don’t know whether I like it, or I hate it.At its core, Normal is a book about a serial killer who blends in completely with his surroundings. However, he’s adept at kidnapping young girls, putting them in a cage and eventually killing him. So he’s a monster, in a way. But when this serial killer, who doesn’t get a name during the book – which works surprisingly well – meets a girl at the checkout from the 24-hour grocery and falls in love with her. He doesn’t want to kill anymore, he doesn’t want to hunt people anymore, all he wants to do is love this girl. But he has a few problems. Like the girl he has hidden in his basement. The girl he just killed. The police right on his heels.So, I like the premise. A serial killer who suddenly doesn’t want to kill anymore. I like it, but I’m not buying it. Especially not the way it’s written here, with the whole falling in love thing (which happens way too fast, and is unrealistic). The book reminded me of the final seasons of Dexter, when he falls in love with this female murderer. Things went downhill fast after that storyline was introduced, and the same thing happens in this book. The plot sets out for an excellent psychological thriller on the first few pages, but then turns into a laughable chase between the killer and the police, and him suddenly befriending not one but two women, and then having a third seemingly attracted to him as well. I’m sorry, but finding so many people attracted to a serial killer is almost impossible. And then the way the police handles things? That was laugh out loud hilarious. I’m all for dark humor, but it needs to be realistic, and that’s what this book is lacking.We also never get a back story into the killer’s mind. Why does he kill these women? Why hold them in a cage for so long? Nothing is ever explained, and since we spent the entire book firmly in the killer’s mind, we should get an explanation as to why he does the things he does.The characters are dull. Their behavior is erratic. The women never reach beyond the personality of a cardboard figure, especially not the love interest. The behavior of the characters kept contradicting itself, which was just plain annoying.On the other hand, I did enjoy the writing style, and I felt like, although we got no back story, I got a good impression of what went on in the killer’s mind. However, the story was just too unrealistic and the characters’ behavior too out of place for me to truly enjoy it. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
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