- Summary: Jazz’s childhood was anything but normal. His dad was an infamous serial killer who racked up over 100 kills before being caught by small town Sherriff G.Williams in Lobo’s Nod. Jazz has spent the last four years of his life caring for his grandmother and avoiding two future scenarios: him being removed from his grandmother’s care and placed into the foster care system and becoming just like his father. His best friend Howie and girlfriend Connie keep him grounded in reality and focused on forgetting his gruesome past. But when murders begin again in his small town, his killer instincts and inside knowledge allow him to help G. Williams catch a copy cat killer whose ultimate goal is to convince Jazz he IS a serial killer and needs to live up to his father’s legacy.
- Textbook: The character of Jazz is so incredibly complex. He was literally raised up and trained to be the perfect killer. He saw incredible horror and even figures out as he grows up that he was involved in his own mother’s death by being manipulated by his father. On the flip side, he is a high school senior with a best friend and a girlfriend, trying to figure out how to grow away from his past. Watching him struggle with his own feelings and then overcome his own beliefs about himself to become the good guy make this novel incredible reader friendly and intriguing. You are drawn to his development and hope things turn out well for him.
Lyga, B. (2012). I hunt killers. New York: Little, Brown.
I Hunt Killers is part of a trilogy. The following are the two other novels.
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