I Don't Want to Kill You

The final book in the "John Cleaver" trilogy by Dan Wells, following I Am Not a Serial Killer and Mr. Monster.

John Wayne Cleaver is still not a serial killer, because to be a serial killer you have to kill people. Of course, his first action after successfully defeating Agent Forman was to use his cell phone to contact one of his associates and announce that he plans to kill her - even though he has no idea what she might be able to do to him, or force him to do to his family...

What's more, he wasn't expecting Nobody to come with backup.


 * Betty and Veronica - Brooke and Marci.
 * Bound and Gagged - John has a brief moment of imagining Marci this way.
 * Chekhov's Gun - The Handyman arrives at the same time as a chain of apparent suicides.
 * Demonic Possession - John and Father Erikson discuss this as a possibility, although.
 * Driven to Suicide - Nobody's victims.
 * Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas - Assuming that we can qualify John as bad, this trope applies.
 * Heroic Sacrifice -
 * Like You Would Really Do It - Invoked by Nobody. John wouldn't really would he?
 * Mama Bear - Mrs. Cleaver.
 * Police Are Useless - Averted. John gets quite a lot of information out of Marci's father.
 * Red Herring - For the characters as well as the readers. When the Handyman arrives in Clayton . Similarly,
 * Reluctant Psycho - John will get worse before he gets better...
 * Sacrificial Lion -
 * Sociopathic Hero - John Wayne Cleaver.
 * Stalker with a Crush - John hasn't entirely gotten over this tendency.
 * Taking You with Me - Done by.
 * Talking to the Dead - In a spectacularly creepy scene near the end, John gets to fulfil his fantasy of embalming a loved one, complete with this.
 * Talking to the Dead - In a spectacularly creepy scene near the end, John gets to fulfil his fantasy of embalming a loved one, complete with this.