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Some Sisterly Murder

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Bingo 13 (Pajiba) I noticed recently that this novel could actually qualify for several different squares, but I’ll be using it for Pajiba, where a review was posted 1/24/2019. I’ve had my eye on the title for a while although I’m not quite sure where I first heard about it. I’m not sure what exactly what I was expecting, but I didn’t get it, not even close. I was not really expecting to enjoy this, firstly because it’s contemporary literary fiction, and secondly it’s written in the first person mostly present. In spite of these two obstacles, I raced through […]

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8/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:62 |

He thinks she’s his angel

Blood for Blood (Ziba MacKenzie #1) by Victoria Selman

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OMG.  This is the second series (maybe EVER) that I started at the first book!  I don’t remember how I found it, but it might’ve been a Kindle First book. Ziba Mackenzie is a profiler of Israeli descent who was married to a Scotsman.  Her husband had died about a year prior and she was called back into work to profile a new / old / new again serial killer. She starts out getting into a train crash.  Her cop instincts kick in and she starts to try and save people.  One lady says “he did it, you have to […]

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3/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:4 |

A new chapter for a brilliant piece of crime journalism

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

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CBR 10 Bingo: So Shiny! Bingo #3! On April 24, 2018, Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested and charged with eight counts of first-degree murder by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department. Santa Barbara County would soon follow with four additional murder charges. The man widely known as the Golden State Killer, thought to be responsible for at least 13 murders and over 50 rapes spanning the 1970s and 80s, had finally been caught. No doubt the families of the victims felt some degree of comfort and relief at the arrest. Additionally, the friends and families of late journalist Michelle McNamara celebrated […]

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11/30/2018 's CBR10 Review No:29 |

A compelling, if largely implausible theory of the Zodiac Killer

The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...And Finding the Zodiac Killer by Gary Stewart with Susan Mustafa

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In my last review, of Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door, Mrs. Smith recommended that I check this book out. I picked it up the next day. So, thanks Mrs. Smith for the recommendation. First things first, I ended up enjoying this book quite a bit. Setting aside the conclusions he comes to, there’s a pretty good story here. Gary Stewart was abandoned as a baby, but was soon adopted by a great couple who raised him in a stable Christian household full of love. At the age of 39, his birth mother contacted […]

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5/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

An excellent account of horrendous events

Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, and Hurst Laviana

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In lieu of the recent arrest in Sacramento, California of the East Area Rapist/Original Nightstalker/Golden State Killer and the hopes that the genealogical studies that led to his arrest could be used to discover the identity of the Zodiac Killer, I felt compelled to read about another serial killer who seemingly retired from terrorizing his community so that he could live a normal life. Both EAR/ONS and BTK because it’s utterly mind-boggling that this happens, and runs counter to the narrative usually put out there about serial killers. BTK terrorized Wichita, Kansas in the late 70s, beginning with the murder […]

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5/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

Falling towards a violent end

Fall by Candice Fox

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If Detective Frank Bennett tries hard enough, he can sometimes forget that Eden Archer, his partner in the Homicide Department, is also a moonlighting serial killer . . . So this book has that intriguing premise – after all, how often is the cop also the killer?  As this is book three in the Archer & Bennett series, I was lost on some of the backstory on both characters and frustrated by the style the book was written in.  It’s set in Sydney, Australia, which was interesting but you could tell me it was in America and I’d be hard […]

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12/19/2017 's CBR9 Review No:100 |

The Unknown Story of America’s First Serial Killer

The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth

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Before Jack the Ripper, there was The Midnight Assassin. He was a serial killer in Austin, Texas, and maybe the first serial killer. He sometimes simply scared women by standing in front of a window, sometimes beat women and went through their clothes, and sometimes killed them. His weapons of choice were iron rods inserted in the ears, an axe swung at the face, and a brick. In the mid-1880s he killed at least five women in Austin, totally changing the mood and even the landscape of Texas’ little capitol city. People won and lost their livelihoods and their freedom […]

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12/11/2017 's CBR9 Review No:65 |

Cop culture in the 1970s

Cop Town by Karin Slaughter

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After all the violence in the last book, I almost didn’t bother with this one; however, it was much less bloody but not without its gritty realism.  The book is set in the 1970s, with a madman on the loose targeting cops and a police force that is in turmoil.  This is the world that Kate Murphy has stepped into – it’s her first day on the job and she isn’t prepared for the harsh reality of a macho environment.  There aren’t many women on the force, and they are looked down on by the men as being unfit to […]

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7/31/2017 's CBR9 Review No:62 |


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