An Absolute Gentleman

A spinechilling first novel loosely based on the author''s reallife relationship with a convicted murderer An Absolute Gentleman delves with subtlety and tremendous psychological insight into a serial killer''s mind.. Meet Arthur Bloom: charming guy smalltown English professor struggling writer and occasional murderer. In this beautifully articulated debut novel R. M. Kinder brilliantly channels Arthur''s voice to reveal the aberrant thought processes of a surprisingly sympathetic serial killer. Horror arises as it does in real life in brief hints and disclosures that gradually reveal the complex nature of an alltoohuman narrator.