~ Hardcover

~ Winner of the Puddly Award for Thriller - 2001

After FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed Dr. Hannibal Lecter in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane, he escaped from custody, and now, seven years later, the doctor is still at large, pursuing his own ineffable interests, savoring the scents and the essences of an unguarded world.  Seven years hasn't been enough for Starling to forget her encounters with Dr. Lecter and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice that still sounds in her dreams . . .

Powerful, hypnotic, and utterly original work of psychological suspense, Hannibal is a dazzling feast for the imagination that takes readers into the mind of a killer, crafting a chilling portrait of insidiously evolving evil.