The 8 most evil duos in fiction

Whodunnit? The search for the murderer is one of the reasons we read crime fiction and the genre has produced some wonderful villains. In reality, however, crimes are not always the result of a single perpetrator, and evil pairings can produce a truly vile dynamic.

The phenomena isn’t limited to the thriller genre and below is our pick of the top eight evil duos in fiction.

Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac in Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

In a modern day vampire tale, the friendship between Louis and Lestat is marked by sexual frisson and a tortured difference in attitudes towards their prey.