I think this is the final Hannibal Lecter book. Or at least the final book that moves the story forward. I know there is a prequel book that doesn’t remotely seem interesting. The strength of Red Dragon is that so much has clearly happened before we get there that we’re playing catch-up the whole time. The same thing happens with Silence of the Lambs as well, since for most people, this was their entry point to the character. The real issue with this book is […]

This is the first book in the Hannibal Lecter series. If you’ve seen the tv show Hannibal, then this is where they were headed before the show was cancelled. So we more or less begin in medias res with Will Graham, criminal profiler (I will use this as a shortcut), no longer works with the FBI because in his capture of Hannibal Lecter, which predates the novel, and now he’s married and living far away from DC. He has a sense that he’s going to […]