Query: Non-death novels about psychopathy.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Butcher Boy (novel)
Strangers on a Train (novel)
A Kiss Before Dying (novel)
Mallory's Oracle
A Decent Ride
Blindsight (Watts novel)
Evidence from documents: The Butcher Boy (novel): Set in a small town in Ireland in the early 1960s, it tells the story of Francis "Francie" Brady, a schoolboy who retreats into a violent fantasy world as his troubled home life collapses.
Strangers on a Train (novel): While on a train to see his wife, he meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a psychopathic playboy who proposes an idea to "exchange murders": Bruno will kill Miriam if Guy kills Bruno's father
Mallory's Oracle: '''Mallory's Oracle''' is the first novel in the Kathy Mallory series by author Carol O'Connell. The book was nominated for an Edgar Award and a Dilys Award. It was first published by Hutchinson in May 1994 in the UK, then in August that year by Putnam in the US.
The series stars Kathleen Mallory, a policewoman who is tall, blonde, beautiful, and green-eyed. She also has immense street and computer smarts. Her physical beauty masks a cold, amoral interior, however; O'Connell describes Mallory as a sociopath.
A Decent Ride: The book's title is a double-entendre on Lawson's sexual prowess, and his job in this novel as a taxi driver.
Blindsight (Watts novel): The novel follows a crew of astronauts sent out as the third wave, following two series of probes, to investigate a trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt comet dubbed "Burns-Caulfield" that has been found to be transmitting an unidentified radio signal to an as-yet unknown destination elsewhere in the Solar System, followed by their subsequent first contact. The novel explores questions of identity, consciousness, free will, artificial intelligence, neurology, game theory as well as evolution and biology.