The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter.
An ingenious, masterfully written novel, The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling..
His cryptic clues--about Buffalo Bill and about her --launch Clarice on a search that every reader will find startling, harrowing, and totally compelling.
Smart and attractive, Starling is shaken to find herself in a strange, intense relationship with the acutely perceptive Lecter.
Lecter\'s insight into the minds of murderers could help track and capture Buffalo Bill.
Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and grisly killer now kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Her assignment: to interview Dr.
Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, Chief of the Bureau\'s Behavioral Science section.
Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the F.
B.
I.
He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states.
A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill--is stalking particular women.
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic, now with a note by author Thomas Harris revealing his inspiration for Hannibal Lecter