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Butcher Game, The

"Sometimes the devil is just a human who wants to inflict pain." Author: Alaina Urquhart Dr. Wren Muller still remembers the woods. The terror. The serial killer who nearly ended her life. Right now, she’s taking some forced time off and trying to recalibrate her mind, but she knows that he’s still out there – the Bayou Butcher, otherwise known as Jeremy Rose. And she knows him. His sick game isn’t over. Sooner or later, he’ll come for the one that got away. The Butcher Game is the second in the Dr. Wren Muller series, and my introduction to the writing [...]

Frances Carden2025-08-24T10:46:13-07:00August 24th, 2025|Tags: Alaina Urquhart, book review, crime, read, reading, serial killer, The Butcher Game, thriller, Wren Muller|

Great Gimmelmans, The

Coming-of-Age as a Bank Robber Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg In this high-speed, crime-ridden, coming-of-age-tale, twelve-year-old Aaron Gimmelman watches his family lose everything, go on the run, and turn into a group of murderous bank-robbers. The real kicker? Aaron is the sensible member of the family, the only realist in the disturbed bunch, and he started his own family down this road of crime. It begins with the stock crash of ’87. Formerly affluent, high-roller Barry Gimmelman (the father) is suddenly broke. Everything was bought through debt, through promises, through the assurance that the future held success. It’s all going back now. [...]

Frances Carden2023-12-14T19:36:05-07:00December 14th, 2023|Tags: book review, crime, drama, read, reading, thriller|

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Murder or Mistake? Author: John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the story of a rich, eccentric man; a vicious murder; a voodoo priestess; a sassy drag queen; a would-be-poisoner; a lovable squatter; and a bunch of snobby rich people in old town Savannah, Georgia, who love to talk about a good scandal. The surprising thing about this story – which I honestly thought was a novel until I sat down to finally write this review – is that it is a true story. This explains some of its eccentricities, it’s definite lack of focus and magazine [...]

Frances Carden2022-11-14T18:17:12-07:00November 14th, 2022|Tags: book review, crime, fiction, read, reading, true crime|