I read it for the first time just a couple years ago and I agree with your endorsement. It also makes good use of the shifting narrator, although they alternate sections, not chapters. And the two narrators are predator and victim, not predator and detective.
Mark
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> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:39:45 -0700
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re: Moratorium on serial murderer mysteries?
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> Excuse me if I'm repeating myself, can't remember if I've brought this up before, or if so how recently, but THE COLLECTOR by John Fowles is a great serial killer book. I read it at a remote cabin in the Adirondacks as a teenager and I literally threw it down on the porch at the end.
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