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The Titles Aren’t Subtle, but the Books are Substantial

Stillhouse Lake (Book 1) by Rachel Caine

Killman Creek (Stillhouse Lake series book 2) by Rachel Caine

Wolfhunter River by Rachel Caine

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Gina Royal didn’t know she was married to a monster. Her whole life changed  as she pulls up to her home where there’s been an accident. A drunk driver crashes   into her husband’s garage turned “workspace” revealing that what Melvin Royal was actually working on in that garage was becoming a prolific serial killer.  At first, the police don’t believe that Gina had no knowledge of what her husband had been doing so for two years, she lost her children and was embroiled in a court battle and continually linked to the man she was once married to. Flash forward […]

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6/4/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

Serial Bad Writing

The Killer Book of Serial Killers by Tom Philbin and Michael Philbin

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For a research library, my university’s stacks are pretty lacking in texts that are actually helpful to most students’ work, so I often help out my students by taking out books from my own library system. This is how I ended up with The Killer Book of Serial Killers. I would never have selected this myself based on the cover alone, but my student found it and was intrigued, and who am I to judge the sources he wants to use for his Criminology final? We discussed a few of the features in it while he was sitting in the office, […]

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4/24/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:14 |

Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

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I had been looking forward to this novel since I read the first reviews several months ago and it did not disappoint. What a fantastic debut! The novel opens with Korede getting a phone call from her sister. Her boyfriend is dead, and she needs help cleaning up. And it’s not the first time Korede has gotten this kind of call from her younger sister Ayoola. This novel is fun, dark and a very quick and enjoyable read. It’s the story of an older sister who is maybe a little bitter but who nevertheless would do anything to protect her […]

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1/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Truly one of my white whales. #CBRBingo

The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kriezler, #1) by Caleb Carr

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Project: Catch Up On Review Backlog, review #6 out of 11 The Alienist has been on my TBR practically since I joined Goodreads ten years ago. I no longer remember whose review or what list prompted me to add this book. (But thank you, whoever you were! I really liked it!) I had this book on my TBR so long that it almost didn’t make it through several TBR purges. I distinctly remember being on the verge of deleting it at least twice, and then re-reading the blurb or something else made me change my mind, and I kept it. […]

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8/10/2018 's CBR10 Review No:95 |

‘Are we talking about one body or two?’ Nilson replied, ‘Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978.’

Killing for Company by Brian Masters

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In February 1983, the residents of 23 Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill started having problems with their drains. Calling out a plumber, the blockage would turn out to be much, much worse than the usual toilet blockages, as well as accounting for the terrible smell that had been permeating the house for some time. The resident in the attic flat had been flushing human flesh. Quickly arrested, Dennis Nilsen was extremely forthcoming with the police. As well as immediately copping to having bodies hid in his wardrobe awaiting disposal, police asked him if they were dealing with one body or […]

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6/19/2018 's CBR10 Review No:41 |

I’ve seen the future, brother. It is murder.

Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky

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As anyone with even the vaguest idea of my reading habits will have noticed, I’m fascinated by true crime – and serial killers in particular. I can’t tell you why that is (although I’ve read lots of theories about why women, and in particular women with anxiety, are so drawn to the subject), but what I can tell you is that Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters is an excellent book on the history of serial killing, the psychopathology of these types of killers and the profiling methods available to investigators (along with the pros and cons of […]

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3/6/2018 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

Deeply disturbing and graphically violent

Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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As per the blurb:  Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psychological thriller of dangerous secrets, cold vengeance, and unexpected absolution, in which two estranged sisters must come together to find truth about two harrowing tragedies, twenty years apart, that devastate their lives. This was a deeply disturbing book – well written, with great attention to plot and detail, but overall disturbing.  I would warn anyone thinking of reading this that it contains highly graphic violence to women, with scenes of torture and rape that are almost too much at times.  If that bothers you, or is a trigger […]

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7/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:61 |

You Keep Telling Yourself That, Pal…

I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

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John Wayne Cleaver has some (most) indicators that he’ll probably be a serial killer one day: The superficial/not actual indicators:  His middle name is Wayne, his dad is named Sam (which makes him the Son of Sam), his last name’s Cleaver, he’s obsessed with serial killers. The real:  The “triad”–bedwetting, animal cruelty, and a compunction towards arson.  Oh yeah, and he’s a sociopath. But as much as John studies serial killers, he keeps telling us and his therapist that he’s studying them so that he knows what not to do.  He creates rules for himself (much like Dexter), and much like […]

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6/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:20 |


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