A Certain Hunger

One sentence synopsis... From inside a correctional facility, a former food writer and serial killer narrates her life's story as told through the meals and the men she's consumed.

Read it if you like... the most obvious comparison is obviously Hannibal (specifically the Mads television version). Summers's writing is as metaphor-heavy as Raymond Chandler, with plenty of food comparisons to work with. But she tries to squeeze too much into a slim novel - the democratization of writing on the internet, feminism, the industrial meat complex, the history of cannibalism, the modern art world, etc - and isn't completely successful in blending everything together.

Dream casting... Julianne Moore as Dorothy Daniels.