Strangers
John Lanchester, 11 July 1991
Serial Murder: An Elusive Phenomenon
edited by Stephen Egger.
Praeger, 250 pp., £33.50, October 1990,0 275 92986 8 Show More
edited by Stephen Egger.
Praeger, 250 pp., £33.50, October 1990,
“... the killings are as inert, and therefore as gratuitous, as one fears they will be. The killings in Helen Zahavi’s novel Dirty Weekend aren’t like that, partly because the author seems so intensely to approve of them. ‘This is the story of Bella, who woke up one morning and realised she’d had enough.’ Having ‘had enough’, Bella starts to go ... ”
