Playing With Knives: A Fictionalized Serial Killer Memoir

In the year 2080, a 106-year-old serial killer begins recording the story of his life.

Mark Nutt grows up in a broken and unstable home, and from an early age his violent impulses begin to take shape. What starts in childhood escalates into a pattern of murder that follows him into adolescence and adulthood, blurring the line between confession, invention, and self-mythology.

Set in and around Britain’ s underground rave scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the book moves through illegal ...