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Normal

A Novel

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Pub Date Mar 31 2015 | Archive Date May 31 2015

Description

"The truth is I hurt people. It's what I do. It's all I do. It's all I've ever done." 

He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him.  

What you don't know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will—one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her. 

This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal…and it works. Perfectly. 

Then he meets the checkout girl from the 24-hour grocery. And now the plan, the hunts, the room…the others. He doesn't need any of them anymore. He needs only her. But just as he decides to go straight, the police start to close in. He might be able to cover his tracks, except for one small problem—he still has someone trapped in his garage. 

Discovering his humanity couldn't have come at a worse time.

"The truth is I hurt people. It's what I do. It's all I do. It's all I've ever done." 

He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping...


Advance Praise

Hypnotic and chilling–you won’t forget this in a hurry.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“A black comedy…Cameron has written a painfully funny story that's littered with corpses, both intentional and unintentional, and proves that sometimes spotting the craziest person on the block isn't quite as easy as it seems.” –Kirkus Reviews

“Not since Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley have I been this compelled by a serial killer…Normal is virtually impossible to put down. Love this book!”—Calvin Crosby, Book Passage

“Graeme Cameron takes us on a supercharged ride… It’s a little bit Dexter, a little bit Natural Born Killers and a whole lot of fun.” —Christine Haynes, Chapters

“A full-blown Psycho-meets-Hannibal story that’s too wild to put down!” –Becky Walton, Ingram

"Normal" is unlike anything I've ever read before…Graeme Cameron is an author to watch!” –Lauren Peugh, Changing Hands Bookstore

“This is simply a brilliant book—utterly compelling and unforgettable. I loved it.” —Jamie Mason, author of Three Graves Full and Monday’s Lie

Hypnotic and chilling–you won’t forget this in a hurry.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“A black comedy…Cameron has written a painfully funny story that's littered with...


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