I Hunt Killers

I Hunt Killers is by Barry Lyga. The first in the realistic fiction thriller Jasper Dent series. Jasper Dent is the son of the nation's most prolific serial killer. His father raised him to follow in his footsteps, but Jazz doesn't want to be like his father. He believes his father killed his mother and he lives with his paternal grandmother, who is senile on her best days. When bodies start showing up in town, killed in ways that mirror his father's murders, Jazz decides he needs to catch the killer to convince people, including himself, that he didn't do it. This book is both gory and psychologically scary, but it is really good. So if this is your jam, you will LOVE this novel. I can't wait for the second in the series. 

Ratings: 11th grade - 9 out of 10 - P (profanity) - V(violence) - AC (mature thematic content).