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The silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris is his second to feature Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibal serial killer. Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, is sent to see the imprisoned Lecter in order to ask his expert advice on catching a serial killer given the name Buffalo Bill, who is abducting women and skinning them.
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