The Serial Killer’s Son Takes a Wife

The Serial Killer’s Son Takes a Wife

SURVIVAL TIPS FOR SONS OF SERIAL KILLERS

1. Change your last name. Be forgettable.

2. Take comfort. Serial killing is not hereditary. Not usually, anyhow.

3. Never contact your parents, whether on Death Row or elsewhere. You are messed up enough.

4. Choose a dull career. Run an ice cream parlor, for instance.

5. Do not fall in love. Sooner or later, she will ask to meet your mom and dad.

6. Trust no one. Not even her.

7. Do not get married. It cannot end well.

8. Keep what you know to yourself. You were just a kid, after all.

9. Do not return to your boyhood home. No one has forgotten anything.

SURVIVAL TIPS FOR READERS: Watch your back. Lock your doors. Be courteous to everyone. Yes, everyone. This is your only warning.

The Serial Killer's Son Takes a Wife was released on September 5, 2023.

EBook ISBN: 978-1-68057-456-2
Trade paperback ISBN: 978-1-68057-457-9
Jacketed hardcover ISBN: 978-1-68057-458-6
312 pages
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Genres: Horror, Thrillers
Tag: New Releases
ISBN: 9781680574579
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"Libling gives the reader a chilling reading experience into the world of a serial killer that rates up there with a best selling true crime book or a Dateline NBC special... So Hannibal Lecter, Leatherface, Norman Bates, and Jason, meet your newest contemporary in Henry Taylor Dickens, and his son Bobby, who so vainly tried to get out of living in the shadow of being a serial killer’s son."
– Stuart Nulman, Montreal Times
"It is a turn-the-page-if-you-dare first-person narrative from the point of view of a bitter boy-turned-man, the titular serial killer’s son, Bobby Blessing (born Dickens), who was raised in a world where 'bad things happen to bad people and worse things happen to good people.' ...The Serial Killer's Son Takes a Wife is as fun as it is titillatingly horrifying… The reader is yanked from one chapter to the next, cliff-hanger to cliff-hanger, until reader and protagonist meet in the dark, one as blind as the other as to what happens next."
– Dan Laxer, The Suburban
“Michael Libling writes like that affable stranger on the next barstool buying you drinks as he charms you with his stories. Next thing you know, you’ve woken up in a bathtub full of ice with your kidney missing. Once you start reading this dangerous, slippery novel, watch yourself. You won’t be able to stop, as much as you will sometimes want to.”
– William Shunn, author of The Accidental Terrorist
“Michael Libling is a brilliant writer. Anyone who’s read his first novel, Hollywood North, knows this already. His second, The Serial Killer’s Son Takes A Wife, is just as brilliant, giving us, as it does, the same breathtaking mix of riveting ideas and heartfelt humanity that makes all of Libling’s work so memorable.”
– Bruce McAllister, author of Dream Baby and The Village Sang to the Sea
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Michael Libling

Michael Libling is a World Fantasy Award finalist whose short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many others. The Serial Killer’s Son Takes a Wife is his second novel. His first, Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels, was published in 2019. Creator and former host of the long-running CJAD Trivia Show in Montreal, Michael is the father of three daughters and lives on Montreal’s West Island with his wife, Pat, and a big black dog named Piper. Among other things, he claims to be one of only a handful of North American authors who has never owned a cat. You can find out more about him at www.michaellibling.com, where he has been known to blog on occasion.