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Bodies? Bodies!

Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes

August 29, 2022 by Jake 2 Comments

Read this as part of CBR14 Bingo: Bodies. Because it has “bodies” in the title and involves a lot of bodies, some alive, some dead.  You was by far one of the best books I read this year. Which surprised me given that I don’t care for books about serial killers; finding them monotonous and often gratuitously violent. Everyone is trying to rip off Hannibal Lecter these days (and has been for the last thirty years). But Caroline Kepnes has crafted a you-niquely (see what I did there? […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: bodies, Caroline Kepnes, cbr14bingo, crime, Hidden Bodies, Joe Goldberg, los angeles, serial killers, You

Jake's CBR14 Review No:151 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: bodies, Caroline Kepnes, cbr14bingo, crime, Hidden Bodies, Joe Goldberg, los angeles, serial killers, You ·
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Snoozefest

Sleepyhead by Mark Billingham

August 1, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

A serial killer stalks the streets of London. He approaches women, out alone at night, charms them and plies them with champagne laced with sedatives; when they’re out, he applies a technique to induce a stroke. Most women do not survive, but the ones that do are trapped in a nightmare: their brains are fully functional, but they cannot move. Inspector Tom Thorne is tasked with finding the killer. He has his own idea about who is behind the grisly attacks, but his superiors beg […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: crime, London, Mark Billingham, serial killers, Tom Thorne, Tom Thorne series

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: crime, London, Mark Billingham, serial killers, Tom Thorne, Tom Thorne series ·
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Bodied

You by Caroline Kepnes

July 28, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Kind of like my review for 2666, this is going to be one where I have to sort of list my uncategorized scattered thoughts. I sat on this for 24 hours and I still don’t know the best way to talk about this book so here it goes… -It took me four tries to read this. Why couldn’t I quit? My wife hate-watches the series. I walked in on her during a viewing and caught maybe fifteen minutes of it. It really helped me to understand […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Caroline Kepnes, New York City, serial killers, You

Jake's CBR14 Review No:123 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Caroline Kepnes, New York City, serial killers, You ·
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Hell and Gone

Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

July 22, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Had mixed feelings on this one, though I ultimately liked it and found it compelling and readable. And I say that as someone who doesn’t care for serial killer stories, fiction or not. The good: Sherman knows how to weave a yarn. He keeps this smooth, while integrating the many historic events happening around the Cape Cod murder case (the moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the Tate-LaBianca murders, good Lord, the 60s were quite the time to be alive). All of this while two world famous writers […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cape Cod, Casey Sherman, Helltown, kurt vonnegut, Massachusetts, Norman Mailer, Provincetown, serial killers, Tony Costa, true crime

Jake's CBR14 Review No:122 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Cape Cod, Casey Sherman, Helltown, kurt vonnegut, Massachusetts, Norman Mailer, Provincetown, serial killers, Tony Costa, true crime ·
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Mind Games

Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild

May 22, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

It’s well known that I’m not much of a fan of serial killer fiction. Everyone’s trying (and failing) to ripoff Hannibal Lecter, making their killers even more diabolical than their fictional predecessors. Serial killers are boring. I’m more interested in the “why” of people killing. What makes a human being take another human being’s life? Sascha Rothschild’s confidently written debut work attempts to answer that question through the eyes of a serial killer who swears she isn’t one. It’s difficult to create a legit complex main character […]

Filed Under: Suspense Tagged With: Blood Sugar, Miami, Sascha Rothchild, serial killers, Yale

Jake's CBR14 Review No:84 · Genres: Suspense · Tags: Blood Sugar, Miami, Sascha Rothchild, serial killers, Yale ·
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Waif Goodbye

Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus #3) by Ian Rankin

February 5, 2022 by Zirza Leave a Comment

London, early 1990s. Women are being attacked on the streets; their throats are slit, they’re stabbed in an unfortunate place and a bite mark is left on their stomachs. The first attack happens on Wolf street and thus the press, with their neverending creativity, dub him the Wolfman. Inspector John Rebus – lapsed Christian, alcoholic in denial, still straddling the line between ‘difficult person’ and ‘asshole’ – is called down to aid the investigation, but by whom? And why?  This is a curiously chaotic novel […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: a universe of no women, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, London, serial killers

Zirza's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: a universe of no women, crime, Ian Rankin, Inspector Rebus, London, serial killers ·
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