"A fun, suspenseful and enjoyable read with a twist!"

• Publisher: ‎ Austin Macauley Publishers (24 May 2024)
• Language: ‎ English
• Paperback: ‎ 300 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1035847205
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1035847204
• Genre: Crime Mystery

The BookViral Review:

An edge-of-your-seat read that rapidly builds momentum Nature vs Nurture Diary of Serial Killer delivers a powerful sense of the macabre and a clever plot with author Andrew Charles sure not to sacrifice pace for surplus detail.

Fans of the genre will quickly come to appreciate he’s not an author who favours understatement or subtlety. But like all good authors in the crime genre, he knows that a lack of realism will weaken the impact of his writing. He doesn’t want us to forget he’s writing about a brilliant serial killer and there’s an undeniable exuberance to his prose.

Yes, Nature vs Nurture Diary of a serial killer is hyper-violent and hyper-gory and there’s nothing at all wrong with that. It is after all why fans are attracted to the genre. But tone, attitude and pacing can’t be ignored and once again Charles gets the balance just right.

There’s certainly plenty of blood and guts. His young protagonist Rhona Smith is vividly portrayed and it’s hard not to be simultaneously drawn to and repelled by her as she pursues her dream of 500 kills. But whilst the clichés are out in force the scenes never become tiresome as Charles takes us from the French Alps to Canada in a international game of cat and mouse.

Even in the heat of Rhona’s more inventive and graphic kills, of which there are many, Charles holds our attention as the plot thickens and the suspense continues to mount. Keeping us on tenterhooks throughout and only releasing us after the last full stop.

A fun, solidly crafted, suspenseful and enjoyable read with a real twist at the end Nature vs Nurture Diary of a serial killer is certainly recommended to fans of serial killer fiction!