James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. In The Killer Inside Me, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge-and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker who fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.īut behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe.

A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers-the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between-as the nicest guy around.

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford.

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