The Silence of the Lambs
An FBI trainee hunts a serial killer with the help of Hannibal Lecter, in Thomas Harris's classic thriller.
Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel, the sequel to Red Dragon, pits FBI trainee Clarice Starling against the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, with the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter as her unlikely guide. It is the best-known book in Harris’s Hannibal Lecter series, with more than ten million copies sold, and it won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film adaptation was a huge critical and commercial success.
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Patricia Cornwell
Simply one of the finest thrillers ever written. It influenced me considerably; when I was writing Postmortem, my first crime novel about medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, I studied the way Harris told his story and most of all his descriptions. I still read it now and then today.
Article · December 2023
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