The Silence of the Lambs

By Thomas Harris

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

The Silence of the Lambs (1988) is Thomas Harris's thriller and the second novel featuring the psychiatrist and serial killer Hannibal Lecter, after Red Dragon. FBI trainee Clarice Starling is sent to interview Lecter in a Baltimore hospital for the criminally insane. A killer known as Buffalo Bill is abducting and murdering young women, and the FBI hopes Lecter can help them catch him. As Lecter trades clues for details of Starling's past, she races to find the young woman he is holding captive before it is too late.

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