It’s All In Your Head: Characters With Bateman Levels of Psychopathy
It’s not that Patrick Bateman from American Psycho is the type of character that readers love and root for. But there’s something about Bateman’s depraved mind that is intriguing. You don’t want these characters to win out in the end, but you want them to stick around long enough to spend some time inside their heads, a place that is sometimes thrilling and sometimes dangerous. If you’re looking for thriller books to read with characters like Patrick Bateman and books like American Psycho, check out the eight thrillers on this list.
Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me takes readers into dark mind of an American serial killer. Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff in the small town of Central City, Texas, and everyone in his town loves him. But what they don't know is that Lou has secret urges. Urges that have already claimed the lives of many people.
The Poet is a thriller with surprising twists and turns that will keep you guessing and keep you wondering what the strange mind behind these crimes will do next. The story begins when Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy loses his homicide detective brother to suicide. McEvoy decided to deal with the tragic loss by writing down the story, but as he begins to research what happened to his brother, he starts to suspect a serial killer might be behind it.
n Kate Brady's Last to Die, a ruthless killer is hiding in plain sight, and it's the last person anyone would ever suspect. Detective Dani Cole is determined to find out who killed six women with dark pasts, especially because one of the women was someone Dani herself pulled out of a life of crime. When Dani's investigation leads her to a photography foundation and Mitch Sheridan, a photographer she fell in love with years ago, she finds herself drawn to Mitch all over again. When the two work together to uncover the murderer, they discover the killer might be much closer to them than they could have thought.
The Killer You Know is the story of a group of friends who discover one of them is playing a sinister game. When a group of friends get together for a reunion, they note that one of them is missing, and they recall a time when their friend Will joked with all of him that he would become a serial killer one day. At the time they thought it was a joke, anyway. But now that they don't know where he is? They're not so sure. Especially because some of the things Will joked about match the details of recent murder cases.
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