abc.net.au: "With the advent of on-line shopping, you can now order or bid for all sorts of things from your favourite serial killer: a painting, a letter, an autograph; maybe a lock of their hair, or even a clipping from one of their toenails, the list is endless.

Then, of course, there's the plethora of films, TV programs and books featuring serial killers.

Now this fascination with serial killers isn't new, it's been going on for a century or more. But what IS new is a book that explores, not who these killers are or why they kill and how, but the consequences of according fame to serial killers, and what that fame suggests about the state of contemporary American culture." Listen here