Reddit reviews Zombie: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates wrote a novel Zombie that was based on almost an identical setup. For all I know she was inspired by this.

Read Zombie, by Joyce Carol Oates. It's not about zombies, it's about a psychopathic killer, written in the first-person. That book has haunted me for years. (On a side note, I just realized whoever I last loaned it to apparently never returned it, so I had to go to Amazon and buy a new copy.)

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. Ugh, was brutally vivid and disturbing.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061778915

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates

If you're trying to breach into female author territory, I suggest Joyce Carol Oates. You may remember her from "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a short story that's been on a lot of high school and college curriculum. If you enjoy that, read her novel Zombie:

http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Novel-Joyce-Carol-Oates/dp/0061778915