Ah. If only I'd seen this thread earlier. Richard Laymon might be up your alley. Check out 'Endless Night'. The guy's a damn genius. Unappreciated in his time, sadly enough. Twenty years from now people will talk about him the way we talk about Jim Thompson and Raymond Chandler.
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Anonymous2009-03-08 11:03
Psychological thrillers are a fucking awful genre. I fucking hate that shit. It's authors and readers are maggots with no taste in art whatsoever.
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Anonymous2009-03-08 12:53
It's not from the killer's pov, but "Devil in the White City" is an interesting (and true!) story of a serial killer in Chicago around the time of the world's fair.
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Anonymous2009-03-08 20:00
Crime and Punishment. It's probably already been said, but its good, nonetheless.
I'll look into it. Looking mainly for first-person books, but I do love reading about true crimes. Thanks.
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Anonymous2009-03-09 22:04
Whoops, double post. My mistake.
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Anonymous2009-03-10 18:06
The Stranger by Albert Camus, not a thriller though
The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrere is a true story about a French guy who murdered his family when it was discovered he wasn't really a doctor and had spent all the money people gave him to invest. Not completely from the killers POV, but told in 3rd person.
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Anonymous2009-03-10 18:24
>>10
I second this one. It's half about HH Holmes and half about the World's Fair. But the Holmes stuff is pretty interesting. Not really explicit though, if that's what you're looking for.