Madison may be among the least sinister towns in New Jersey, so it’s a credit to debut novelist Greg Olear’s imagination that the thriller Totally Killer (HarperCollins) is authentically dark and savage.
“It’s Bret Easton Ellis meets John Grisham. In a dark alley. With a butcher knife,” says Olear, a 1991 graduate of Madison High now living in New Paltz, New York.