I Am Not A Serial Killer

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Macmillan, Mar 30, 2010 - Fiction - 272 pages

John Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it.

He's spent his life doing his best not to live up to his potential.

He's obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn't want to become one. So for his own sake, and the safety of those around him, he lives by rigid rules he's written for himself, practicing normal life as if it were a private religion that could save him from damnation.

Dead bodies are normal to John. He likes them, actually. They don't demand or expect the empathy he's unable to offer. Perhaps that's what gives him the objectivity to recognize that there's something different about the body the police have just found behind the Wash-n-Dry Laundromat---and to appreciate what that difference means.

Now, for the first time, John has to confront a danger outside himself, a threat he can't control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.

Dan Wells's debut novel, I Am Not a Serial Killer, is the first volume of a trilogy that will keep you awake and then haunt your dreams.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

 

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Contents

Acknowledgments
7
Chapter 1
13
Chapter 2
24
Chapter 3
38
Chapter 4
55
Chapter 5
67
Chapter 6
82
Chapter 7
94
Chapter 11
151
Chapter 12
164
Chapter 13
178
Chapter 14
192
Chapter 15
206
Chapter 16
217
Chapter 17
228
Chapter 18
241

Chapter 8
108
Chapter 9
120
Chapter 10
135
Chapter 19
258
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About the author (2010)

Dan Wells is the author of Mr. Monster and I Don't Want to Kill You. He lives in Orem, Utah, with his wife, Dawn, and four young children.

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