{"id":78,"date":"2012-07-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2025-05-18T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:36:23","slug":"i-hunt-killers-by-barry-lyga-fiction-following-dad-as-a-serial-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"I Hunt Killers, by Barry Lyga (YA fiction) – following Dad as a serial killer?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"book<\/a>Dad taught him everything about hunting –<\/span>
\nhow to sharpen knives<\/a> correctly,<\/span>
\nhow to choose the right victim,<\/span>
\nhow to kill a person without leaving any evidence behind.<\/span><\/div>\n

Imagine the world’s most notorious serial killer<\/a> – as your dad.<\/p>\n

Jazz knows how serial killers think and is determined to never be anything like his dad. But his nightmares continue, the sight of blood can trigger a flashback<\/a> to being “on the job” with Dad as a kid… and a new killing spree has begun in his small town.<\/p>\n

Barry Lyga skillfully takes readers into a killer’s mind through vivid yet subtle writing which lingers in memory long after the book is closed. (If you’re prone to nightmares<\/a>, then I Hunt Killers<\/i> is probably not for you!)<\/p>\n

Grab the first 10 chapters and the prequel short story “Career Day” at Barry’s website for free, then rush to find I Hunt Killers<\/i>\u00a0 at your local library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a> and pray that Jazz can find the killer before more bodies pile up…
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/b>: I Hunt Killers \/ Barry Lyga. Little Brown, 2012. \u00a0 [author’s website<\/a>] \u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>] \u00a0 [book trailer<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My Recommendation<\/b>: His dad killed people \u2013 lots of people. The world\u2019s most infamous serial killer has been in prison for years when his teen son happens upon a dead body murdered in Billy\u2019s style. And then another, and another. Surely the sheriff of Lobo\u2019s Nod doesn\u2019t suspect that Jazz is taking up the family trade\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
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Jazz is trying to finish high school in their hometown before the social workers find out that he\u2019s taking care of his unbalanced grandmother, instead of Gramma taking care of him. Just one best friend, but who needs more than funny, crazy Howie, a hemophiliac who has to let Jazz have all the adventures. Not many folks are comfortable around Butcher Billy\u2019s kid, but Sheriff G.William has been his mentor for a while.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now, G.William won\u2019t let Jazz see the files on the victims, refuses to realize that the cases are connected, doesn\u2019t want to know that they are following Billy\u2019s pattern from its very beginning \u2013 and that Jazz can predict what type of person will be the next victim.<\/span><\/div>\n
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All those years of Dad making Jazz help him sharpen his knives, clean up afterwards, go with him on \u2018jobs\u2019 have allowed his son to see the crime scenes and the victims through a killer\u2019s eyes. Jazz has all the details about every person that Billy killed (refusing to visit the websites dedicated to his dad or his killing spree) \u2013 but does he have his dad\u2019s killer instincts, too?<\/span><\/div>\n
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As the body count rises \u2013 each victim having one less finger remaining than the last \u2013 Jazz\u2019s nightmares about the horrific lessons that his dad taught him increase. Why can\u2019t he figure out who the killer is when he can tell who the next victim will be? When will G.William take his theory seriously and protect the next possible victims? Will finally Jazz have to visit his dad in maximum security prison to find out if somehow Billy unleashed another monster on the world? \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

Forecast for Lobo\u2019s Nod: nightmares ahead, trust no one, count all your fingers\u2026A chilling thriller that\u2019s so real that it\u2019s really, really scary \u2013 definitely not for the faint-of-heart \u2013 I Hunt Killers<\/i> is first in a new series by Barry Lyga. (One of 5,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)
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Dad taught him everything about hunting – how to sharpen knives correctly, how to choose the right victim, how to kill a person without leaving any evidence behind. Imagine the world’s most notorious serial killer – as your dad. Jazz knows how serial killers think and is determined to never be anything like his dad. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,51],"tags":[22,7,5,70,37,16,18,40,43,34,49,96,15,21,35,3,8,28],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mystery","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-coping","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-growing-up","tag-horror","tag-memories","tag-mental-health","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-villains"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14883,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/14883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}