Audacious Perversion — Mark Sanderson

Sanderson infuses the slasher crime novel with British class warfare in this dry tragicomedy about a 28-year-old crossword-puzzle-obsessed London magazine writer.""--Publishers Weekly. Martin Rudrum, a good looking, young media-mover and crossword puzzle fanatic, has a massive chip on his shoulder. His glamorous friends all appear to be higher up the social scale and seem to enjoy looking down their noses at the street-wise writer. One day Martin decides to do something about it. Thus begins a series of murders in which the accessories of pleasure-champagne, drugs, dumbbells, sunbeds-are misused to deadly effect and through which the medium very definitely becomes the message. Audacious Perversion is a fast moving, outrageous, and witty thriller, a celebration of the serial killer genre while at the same time a satire of it.