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Continue reading →: Saltwater Graves by B.R. Spangler
Rating: ★★★ My heart breaks over and over for Detective Casey White. A woman’s body washes up on the beach with striking similarities to a case from a couple years back involving the ex-sheriff, Jericho Flynn, Casey’s romantic partner. Days later another woman is found, and both of them have…
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Continue reading →: American Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky
Rating: ★★★★★ As far as studying psychopaths, serial killers, and how they might have become the way they are, this book is an absolute gem. I knew when I started this that it was going to be a five star rating within the first few pages. Starting off with the…
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Continue reading →: Too Good to Be True by Carola Lovering
Rating: ★★★★★ Too Good to Be True is one of those books that just grabs ahold of you and won’t let you stop reading. When you think you know what’s going to happen, suddenly everything is spun a completely different way. I don’t want to spoil anything or give anyone…
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Continue reading →: The Wife Upstairs by Rachel HawkinsRating: ★★★★ The beauty of The Wife Upstairs is that the book is very clearly based on Jane Eyre but also in its own little parallel universe, not relying too heavily on staying true to the classic, which was so important in making this a new and interesting read. In this book, twenty-three…
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Continue reading →: Salvation Station
Rating: ★★★★★ Police captain Linda Turner becomes obsessed with solving the haunting murders of two young children and their pastor father, as well as the disappearance of their mother and why they never made it to their missionary work in Africa. Salvation Station is a murder-mystery that combines elements of…
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Continue reading →: We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia HeaberlinRating: ★★★★★ Trumanell Branson disappeared a decade ago, leaving behind a town that never forgot and people who never stopped trying to find her. Odette Tucker, the town’s youngest cop and one with personal ties to Trumanell and her family, is sliding down a slippery slope as she tries to…
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Continue reading →: Every Last Fear by Alex FinlayRating: ★★★★★ Every Last Fear reads like the best kind of crime drama playing right before your eyes. Matt Pine comes back to his NYU dorm after a night of partying to the worst news possible news; his entire family who were on vacation in Mexico was just found dead.…
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Continue reading →: The Only Card in a Deck of Knives by Lauren Turner
Release Date: August 11th, 2020 Rating: ★★★ The Only Card in a Deck of Knives is a collection of rambling, free-verse poetry that is constantly changing and contradicting all within one poem. Written from the perspective of a twenty something year-old who has a terminal illness, she has the ability…
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Continue reading →: An Inconvenient Woman by Stéphanie BuelensRating: ★★★★★ This is another one that hurt my heart. An Inconvenient Woman instantly immerses you and makes you start asking yourself questions right off the bat, hooking you instantly so that you are forced to keep reading. Buelens paced this novel amazingly, information was given to the reader naturally…
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Continue reading →: Maniac by Harold SchechterManiac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter (A TRUE CRIME BOOK) Rating: ★★★★★ (I would highly recommend this to those who study/are interested in true crime, forensics, serial killers/mass murderers, psychopathy, nature vs. nurture, etc.) Maniac is an amazing piece of work,…





