The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
5/5
St. Martin's Griffin 338 pages May 1, 1988
FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks the help of imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. A cat-and-mouse thriller that redefined the serial killer genre and created one of fiction's most iconic villains.
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Hannibal Lecter is one of the most terrifying characters on any page — and he's barely in the book. Harris does more with a few scenes of polite conversation than most authors do with entire chapters of violence. Clarice Starling is a phenomenal protagonist, and their intellectual sparring is bated-breath stuff. The basement scene? Pure tunnel-out-of-the-room terror. Flawless thriller.
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