Donato Carrisi

“Serial killer books are a horror staple. With Donato Carrisi’s The Whisperer, the genre is not only receiving a breath of fresh air; the book is taking dark literary thrillers to a new level.…A great, creepy, tension-filled thriller that keeps a frenetic pace for more than four hundred pages. Carrisi’s prose is sharp and his phrasing has a distinctive literary slant that helps make even the grisly portions of the novel a pleasure to read.”

“Carrisi’s narrative is unforgettable and disturbing, one that will have you waking up at night and making sure that the doors to your home are locked and your children are safe. The Whisperer will take you places that you have never been by routes you will never find again.

But, if you looked at it more closely, the Andersons had made themselves uncontactable, not inaccessible. Like me, Mila thought

would be interesting to look into the Andersons’ old computers and mobiles to see if there was any reference to their murderer. Unfortunately, that was impossible because they had got rid of all their technology.

The only way to find out . . .

‘ . . . is to search my own past,’

We have to go back,’ she told him. ‘The answer is at Limbo.’

The truth was that she was afraid for him so didn’t want to involve him.

They surrounded themselves with followers and formed ‘families’. They killed by using others. They’d choose gobetweens, subjugate them and persuade them to indulge their darkest instincts.

You’re no more than a hamster in a cage that spends its time looking into the cages of other hamsters.’

Design’ was a word used by criminologists and profilers, Mila thought.