I need a gory, bloody, death filled book, please!!

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It's for a friend - honest!! It was her birthday yesterday, and her dp bought her a Kindle. SO she's had some vouchers and they're burning a hole in her pocket! Now if the genre had been almost ANYTHING else, I could've helped her - but I'm not too good on the death and mayhem!

Can anybody out there help me/ her??

I think Kathy Reichs is the author for you

Or Tess Gerritsen

Or Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy - just read it for book group, bloody deathy mayhem a go-go! Or maybe American Psycho? Lots of terribly graphic depictions of people being tortured in that.

Not my taste but each to their own, I suppose...

Tess Gerritsen or, for the really strong of stomach, Mo Hayder

Damn you steamedtreaclesponge there were precisely the books I was going to recommend!

There is a scene in American Psycho where he wanders around proudly wearing a severed head on his dick. Is that going to be graphic enough for her?

I think that might just do it, kenobi!! She's a very good friend, but she does like her blood and guts (she's even popped into the local undertakers to ask for work experience ). I'll email her the list - thanks again everyone!

Anything by Christopher Brookmyre or the Barney Thomson series by Douglas Lyndsey.

She doesn't happen to be into post-apocalyptic zombie type fiction is she? If so there are an absolute tonne of books on kindle in this genre - and most of them cost under a fiver (with lots going for around two quid or less too!)

Out by Natsou Kirino (or something like that) is the goriest book I've read in ages and I LOVE a high body count. Also second the Mo Hayder recommendations. Simon Beckett's books are also quite pathological if that floats her boat.

Jeffrey Deaver? Books like the Bone Collector are pretty gory.

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly. Very graphic, very gory and written with a deftly humourous touch. Then the rest of the "Charlie Parker" books.

Stuart McBride. Every time I read one I swear I'm never going to read another. Not for the weak of stomach.
Some other tartan noirs are quite gory, too. Val McDermid for example.

Game of thrones - I read the whole series a few months ago and stll feel soiled.

Chelsea Cain does a nice line in gory thrillers

Val McDermid books ( the ones with Tony in from Wire in the Blood). Everytime I think Val must be a sicko to think that all up.. then I read another one...

Karin Slaughter - guaranteed to leave me shaken!

The Tess Gerritsen series is quite good.