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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 [...]

2025-08-24T10:46:13-07:00August 24th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Endless Night

Version 1.0.0 Depravity for Delight? Author: Richard Laymon Sixteen-year-old Jody’s sleepover with her best friend went from normal to nightmare in a matter of seconds. She woke up to find her friend speared by a stranger and her friend’s family being dismembered, raped, and cannibalized. Jody barely escaped, managing to rescue her friend’s 12-year-old brother, but that night of horror is hardly over. The killers are still looking for the survivors. Jody and Andy (the brother) are not safe anywhere; it’s time to go on the run with Jody’s cop father and a random, hot female cop. Endless Night [...]

2024-05-09T09:29:14-07:00May 9th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Shining Girls, The

Shine On Author: Lauren Beukes Spoiler Alert: Minor character spoilers in the time-travel analysis section. Won’t ruin the book. I’m slowly working my way through my own summer 2013 fiction reading list (one downside of living in the highly literate city of Seattle is that there’s tons of competition for hot library books). The Shining Girls made a lot of must-read lists this season for its fresh twist on the serial-killer theme: a would-be victim turns the tables, going on the hunt for her attacker. This is complicated by the fact that he can travel in time, aided by a [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:04-07:00July 21st, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , |
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