Lets just say this book will have you hooked from the beginning. It was a wild ride. Travel reporter Lo Blacklock has been giving the assignment of a lifetime, a week long cruise on an exclusive luxury ship. Its a perfect getaway until she see's a woman's body being tossed over board. Now with all the occupants of the ship accounted for she knows that something is going on. You start to think that you have it figured out and then BAM another twist is thrown at you and you have to go back over all the clues that you have pieced together. The last few chapters will have you on the edge of y our seat for sure. So say its a page turner is an understatement. I read this book in one sitting. I am excited to read her other book In a Dark, Dark Wood.
Devils Knot by Mara Leveritt
In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.
So I read this book and I definitely recommend it. I personally didn't think that they did it; but that's for you to decide I guess. I think they were used as scapegoats just because they looked different than the other people in their town. I was only six when this happened but reading it as an almost 30 year old makes me realize that their are sick twisted individuals out in the world.
As I said I don't think that the three boys did it, I think they should have talked to the step dad more, considering he had so many complaints against him and he had broken the law as many times as he did and it was just swept under the rug.
You should also watch the movie Devils Knot with Reese Witherspoon. There is also three documentaries titled Paradise Lost 1,2&3 that are worth watching too I hear. I haven't watched the documentaries, I plan on it.
Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas
I read this book in one day. Which may say something about me but that's another story lol.
Claustrophobic, twisty, creepy and dark, Local Girl Missing explores what happens when the discovery of some human remains opens up a cold case in an off-season seaside town. Narrator Francesca ( Frankie) is forced to face up to a childhood she fled long ago, and confront uncomfortable truths about who she and the people she grew up amongst really are. It will keep you guessing right to the last page.
Frankie comes back to the seaside town that she ran away from when her best friend committed suicide by jumping from the pier. Her best friends brother calls to tell her that a body has been found and they think it might be Sophia. She starts to hear things in the room next to her that is supposedly not occupied. Then she starts seeing a girl that looks like Sophia on the pier. You start to guess what's going on but when it comes to the actual ending of the book you a re surprised at how the author twists it around so you don't really know what's going on.
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
This book was good, it was a little wordy about the police proceedings. I mean I feel like the author spent a lot of time talking about the police and what they were doing and not a lot of time on the actual story of the missing girl.
This story focuses on the main character of Manon Brashaw she is a member of the police force. She has no life and listens to the police radio to go to sleep at night. One night she hears that a girl from the university is missing, she is the daughter to the surgeon of the royal family, has been missing for nearly twenty-four hours. Her home offers few clues: a smattering of blood in the kitchen, her keys and phone left behind, the front door ajar but showing no signs of forced entry.
They start to investigate her boyfriend, best friend and parents. With little to no leads, what does come to light are her strange behavior and her love life. Manon must use all her skills to find Edith alive. When the ending comes together you will be surprised at the reason she was missing and presumed to be dead. I recommend this book for two reasons, one if you like reading about police procedures and two if you can get past the police procedures you will uncover a story about a missing girl that twists you in many different directions.
Tent Number Eight by Gloyd McCoy
On a warm summer day in 1977, the State of Oklahoma was shaken by the heinous and vulgar murder of three Girl Scouts in Tent Number Eight at Camp Scott near Locust Grove, Oklahoma. The investigation of their murders and the subsequent trial of the Native American man accused of those murders will forever be marked as one of the most historical in Oklahoma history.
I wasn't alive when this happened, but I remember hearing about it growing up. So I had to read the book for three reasons. One: it happened in Oklahoma Two: I wanted to know more about it. Three: it is still unsolved.
I don't think that they guy they wanted to pin it on was the one that actually killed the three little girls. I think that he was just one that the police had it out for and knew that they could pin it on him. There are many things that happened that the police could not explain nor connect Gene Leroy Hart to. There are two other books that talk about the Girl Scout Murders; Someone to Cry For the Children by Michael Wilkerson and The Camp Scott Murder by C.S Kelly. I would like to read them both but I am not paying almost $100 for the book by Michael Wilkerson. So I will wait and maybe find it someday. Great News I just checked the Siloam Springs Library and they have it so I will be checking it out soon!
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