Review: Definition of Lustmord = drawing very real parallels of fiction to true crime horror
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 17, 2013
Lustmord:  German(Noun) A state of ecstasy wherein one or more individuals torture and sexually violate a victim to the point of death.Real Life Example: "Leonard Lake & Charles Ng--This pair of survivalists from hell built a torture chamber and snuff film parlor in a remote Northern California ranch to fuel their perverse lustmord."Fictional Example: Pastor Biggs, outwardly a man of the cloth, establishes a San Fernando Valley church presiding over his insane 'board members' , with his 'deacon' aka serial rapist and lackey by his side as he kidnaps, binds, rapes, tortures, dismembers, mutilates and murders women all under the guise of God and doing good for the same community he plunders without remorse.The fictional example is this book series but the parallels of description here are uncannily similar to several true crime I've read.  Although the characters are fictional, the psychosis, degradation, and callous brutality revealed within Biggs and even within Marvin R Muck his accomplice, aka 'deacon' is very real.  There is nothing more frightening in this world than finding out the very person you have been living next to...that weird annoying neighbor or even that wonderfully smart-dressed and polite attractive man is revealed to be piling up the bodies and you could have easily been one of those bodies.  Begs to ask the question, was I ever in anyone's crosshairs?Volume 5 continues to gain momentum as we, the readers, head like a speeding bullet in unchanged trajectory towards the climax...unable to stop its deadly path and result once started...not unlike Biggs.  See my reviews of the previous volumes and you will want to purchase the entire series although every fiber in your being tells you to stay away from this nightmare of a book...you won't be able to resist and you won't be able to sleep...for days. This is the stuff of nightmares.