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DI Gravel is interesting, but I’m not sure he’s great at his job?

Portraits of The Dead (DI Gravel Book 1) by John Nicholl

A Cold Cold Heart (DI Gravel Book 3) by John Nicholl

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Shockingly I started the DI Gravel series at book number two!  It was actually really good (as far as I can remember).  I definitely remember liking DI Gravel as a character.  Like I said in the title though, I’m not sure he’s great as an investigator.  I don’t think he actually solved the crimes in the second book, and I don’t think he actually solved the crimes in this first book either. The bad dude kidnaps a college student named Emma and keeps her a prisoner in his basement and tortures her.  There were apparently five ladies before her, and […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:48 |

Something that happened in the ’80’s can be history, right?

Robert Pickton: The Pig Farmer Serial Killer (Crimes Canada: True Crimes That Shocked The Nation Book 1) by Chris Swinney

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So my friend got me started listening to a true crime podcast based on the most recent story she heard.  It was about a pig farmer named Robert Pickton.  He was apparently a semi-notorious Canadian serial killer.  I didn’t even know that Canada had serial killers! She told me about a book that they kept mentioning, but it was like $15 and I didn’t feel like spending any money that day, so I borrowed the Kindle Unlimited version of the story from Amazon.  Well, it was fine, but I got what I paid for.  I’m excited to get to the […]

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10/30/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:45 |

Would you have stopped? Would it have made a difference?

The Breakdown by B. A. Paris

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Imagine  you’re driving down a super dark, windy road, full of twists and turns.  There are dips and bumps, and it’s raining.  The trees feel like they’re closing in on you, but you see headlights up ahead!  Almost too late, you realize the car is stopped, and you have to swerve around them.  Is the person stranded?  Do you stop and help them?  You don’t want to get out in the rain…   This is the premise of The Breakdown.  The main character – Cass – is on her way home from happy hour with her coworkers and she takes […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:41 |

What if you weren’t sure if your old friend murdered his entire family?

The Dry by Jane Harper

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My sister gave me this book to read after she read the entire thing on our Christmas vacation at the end of last year in like two days.  She loved it, and she wanted me to love it too.  Unfortunately my to be read pile was waaaay too high, and it takes me a while to read “actual” books, so it took me a while to get to this book.  Fortunately though, I read it in two days!  It was really good.  I liked the characters a lot, and I really liked the story. This is the first in the […]

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9/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:40 |

Did she kill him or nah?

Silent Victim by Caroline Mitchell

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I’m writing this review and my previous one back to back.  It’s only serving to prove my previous hypothesis – I read a lot of books about people being gaslit!  I actually enjoyed this one though.  The people were much less dumb than the previous one. So we’re introduced to Emma, a “typical” wife and mother, but she has a secret.  Well, she has a few, but there’s one big one.  She murdered her art teacher that she had an “affair” with when she was fifteen.  I put affair in quotes, because it was obviously statutory rape, and he was […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:37 |

Ooh I hate read most of this book!

What Have You Done by Matthew Farrell

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Somehow I end up reading a lot of books where one of the main characters is gaslighted a lot.  I’m totally not into that in real life, but apparently I’m into reading about it?  Is there something wrong with me?  I guess I’ll have to discuss that with my therapist.  Note to self: get therapist. Anyway, our intrepid hero Liam is a forensic crime scene technician, and he’s called to a scene that scares him one day.  It’s a woman he was having an affair with, and she was murdered in a gruesome way that was similar to how his […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:36 |

Why would a mother do this?

To the Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann

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I don’t really know how I found this book.  I read it a couple months ago, and there have been so many books since then that I just can’t remember!  Anyway, this book is a true story, and at times it was hard to read.  Here’s a quick synopsis of what happened: In Oregon in May 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith dropped her two kids off a bridge into the river.  Her four year old son died, but her seven year old daughter lived.  Amanda was almost immediately caught and arrested, and she was sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. The book […]

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9/23/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:35 |

Smaller Mass Update #3: Books about a guy who owns a dog or two

Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt

First Degree by David Rosenfelt

Dog Tags by David Rosenfelt

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Ok these three together actually makes sense!  They’re all from the same series, and they’re all about a lawyer who loves his dog.  Any one of these books can fulfill my “I Love This” bingo square, because I love dogs, and I love legal thrillers.  In real life, I love dogs more, so don’t worry about me! Here’s #1!  I again started a series at book number 1.  I think CBR is reforming my ways. In this book, we’re introduced to Andy, who is a defense lawyer.  We’re to understand almost immediately that he’s one of the good guys.  Anybody […]

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8/29/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:33 |


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