Donato Carrisi

“Serial killer books are a horror staple. With Donato Carrisi’s The Whisperer, the genre is not only receiving a breath of fresh air; the book is taking dark literary thrillers to a new level.…A great, creepy, tension-filled thriller that keeps a frenetic pace for more than four hundred pages. Carrisi’s prose is sharp and his phrasing has a distinctive literary slant that helps make even the grisly portions of the novel a pleasure to read.”

“Carrisi’s narrative is unforgettable and disturbing, one that will have you waking up at night and making sure that the doors to your home are locked and your children are safe. The Whisperer will take you places that you have never been by routes you will never find again.

However far we run, home is the place that follows us wherever we go.

only chance of catching him would be if he didn’t stop.

call them monsters because we feel they are far away from us, because we want them to be ‘different,’

different,’” Goran said in his seminars. “And instead they’re like us in every respect.

we prefer to remove the idea that someone like us is capable of so much. And we do so in part to absolve our own nature.

Because a man has weak points and can be caught. Not so a monster.”

Mila had always compared sadness to an old cupboard that you’d like to get rid of but which ends up staying where it is, and after a while emanates a certain smell that fills the room. And over time you get used to it and you end up being a part of the smell yourself.

they would go on waiting for the little girl they had lost. Without ever finding peace.