Rating: ★★★☆
Genre: Psychological Fiction
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 348
Read: 06/17/22
Amazon Synopsis:
A Texas map marked with three red dots like drops of blood. A serial killer who claims to have dementia. A mysterious young woman who wants answers. What could go wrong?
FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • “Fast and furious . . . You’ll never see what’s coming.”—The Washington Post
Years ago, her sister Rachel vanished. Now she is almost certain the man who took Rachel sits in the passenger seat beside her. He claims to have dementia and no memory of murdering girls across Texas in a string of places where he shot eerie pictures. To find the truth, she proposes a dangerous idea: a ten-day road trip with a possible serial killer to examine cold cases linked to his haunting photographs. Is he a liar or a broken old man? Is he a pathological con artist—or is she? You won’t see the final, terrifying twist spinning your way until the very last mile.
Review:
"Jack Kevorkian was a lunatic who assisted suicides in the back of his van before it was ever considered humane. A principal contributor to the first Oxford English Dictionary was a patient in an asylum for the crimanally insane after killing a father of six. The mathematical genius Pythagorus had an aversion to beans because he thought part of the soul exited the body with every fart."
"Crazy people get shit done."
The quote above had me chuckling entirely too hard!
The main character of the story has become obsessed with her sisters disappearance that occured when they were very young girls. 24 years later, she is still longing and searching to solve the case. She needs closure and peace for her sister and herself. The man she believes to be the possible kidnapper has dementia and was aquited from all counts of murder and kidnapping from other cases he was charged with, but she believes that he is connected and not innocent. She decides to take him on a road trip to uncover clues and hopefully revive his memory and get him to reveal the details of her sister's disappearance. Lots of secrets, deception, some danger and even some humerous moments occur throughout their trip. Never exactly knowing what is true or not from both their memories.
The unrealistic plot and the sprinkles of humor is what made this book intriguing enough to keep reading, needing to get to that ending to find out exactly what happened. Nothing wrong with a slow build to a satisfactory ending.
Original, quirky, flawed characters, and lots of layers to unwrap.
I didn't love it but I liked it!
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https://www.amazon.com/Julia-Heaberlin/
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