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The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock The Deadliest Secrets Of The World's Most Terrifying Killers (2012)

by Pete Earley(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1439199027 (ISBN13: 9781439199022)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Touchstone

review 1: “The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers by Pete Earley started off strong but quickly became a bit tedious. I am all for the murder and mayhem genre and my wife especially loves it, but this book just couldn’t shake free of the hole it dug. Ostensibly about a young man who suffers a traumatic brain injury and eventually becomes somewhat of a conduit for serial killers to channel their atrocities…the book very quickly began to bog down in its depictions of wickedness. The protagonist suffers his injury and after extensive therapy finds a bit of salvation in communicating with serial killers. His letters to the serial killers explain the traumatic brain injury he suffered and the kil... morelers responses, reflecting how they were opened up to discourse by his candor, explain what made them become killers. But after what seemed like never-ending detailed descriptions of rape, abuse, strangulation, sodomy, stabbing, and mutilation to men, women, and children it got to be old. I got why graphic details had a place in the book, setting the stage and showing us how the protagonist came to understand the mind and inner workings of these monsters…but there was just too much of it and in the end it wasn’t the narrative we thought it would be. We had listened to 4 of the 11 audio CDs and were still wallowing in the descriptions of depravity. We hadn’t gotten to the point where the protagonist begins to “unlock the deadliest secrets” and really saw it was not going to happen for a long time. We had enough…not our cup of tea.
review 2: This book is difficult to read and deals with some of the most violent and brutal murders in the United States. But what I suggest is important is the story of Tony Ciaglia. After having had a traumatic brain injury, Tony starts corresponding with serial killers. Part of the good news - how the family deals with the result of the traumatic brain injury. But powerful as well - particularly as a society - is a challenge to see the worst among us as people, still made in the image of God, despite the horrific, evil things they have done. less

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