I Hunt Killers

Lyga, Barry. I Hunt Killers. Book 1 of the Jasper Dent series. 2012. 361p. ISBN 978-0-316-12584-0. Available at FIC LYG on the library shelves.

Jazz Dent’s father, Billy Dent, is the most notorious serial killer in the United States, having tortured and killed 123 victims before he was captured four years ago. Now 17 and still living in the small town of Lobo Nod, Jazz cannot escape his past nor the legacy of the Dent name. In his nightmares he relives the deaths of countless people he either witnessed or heard about from his murderous father. Having been trained and brainwashed all of his life, Jazz cannot avoid thinking like a serial killer himself and wonder whether he is one himself, just waiting for the right trigger or circumstance to kill.

When a murder happens on the outskirts of town, Jazz becomes implicated in the first of a murderous spray that came to find him. All of the victims are strangely similar to those of Billy Dent’s, down to the initials, the method of death, and even the way in which they are posed. Calling himself the Impressionist, the killer is on the loose, and Jazz is Sheriff G. William’s only hope to catch him.

But doing so will involve digging in man’s baser instincts, and from such a trip Jazz may not return unscated. Can Jazz and his friends Connie and Howie catch the killer before he catches them?

Action-packed and gruesome, this book is not for the faint of heart. Fans of Tenderness will thoroughly enjoy this race seen through the mind of a student of killers.

The story continues in Game.