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Crime Spree

Skin Deep by Sung J. Woo

The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth and the Case of Two Missing Girls by Jax Miller

Later by Stephen King

March 14, 2021 by Jake Leave a Comment

I binged a lot of crime fiction (with one non-fictional exception) as there was a lot of traffic on my already long commute this week, allowing me to synergize eyeball reading with audio. Plus I took off the weekend so I had some extra time… Skin Deep 3 stars So rare, entertaining and enjoyable to have a transracial adoptee as a protagonist. While author Sung J. Woo doesn’t lean too hard on Siobhan’s background, he weaves it in to make her a fully realized person. The […]

Filed Under: Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: adoptees, adoptive fiction, Canada, harry bosch, Hell in the Heartland, horror, Inspector Gamache, Jax Miller, Korean-Americans, later, los angeles, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, mystery, new york, oklahoma, serial killers, Skin Deep, Stephen King, Sung J. Woo, The Concrete Blonde, The Cruelest Month, true crime

Jake's CBR13 Review No:39 · Genres: Horror, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Suspense · Tags: adoptees, adoptive fiction, Canada, harry bosch, Hell in the Heartland, horror, Inspector Gamache, Jax Miller, Korean-Americans, later, los angeles, Louise Penny, Michael Connelly, mystery, new york, oklahoma, serial killers, Skin Deep, Stephen King, Sung J. Woo, The Concrete Blonde, The Cruelest Month, true crime ·
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