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Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
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Review Date: 11/14/2021
I was disappointed in this book and didn't finish it. The author wandered off into wordy descriptions of places and emotions such as "Streetlights dwindle to blackness, and my imagination stirs the darkness into the silhouettes of men leaning on the shadows of broken-down signs and long-out-of-order stores. My headlights reflect off the animals' eyes that now belong to the shadows of imagined killers". I have not read any of Jax Miller's fiction (as fiction is not what I read), and her writings in that genre are probably great, but when it comes to true crime, give me the straight-forward no frills approach of an Ann Rule, a Kathryn Casey or a Sergeant Joe Friday.
Review Date: 1/22/2023
One of the best true crime books I've ever read and written by a sportswriter at that! The story of the rise, reign and paranoiac fall of a corrupt cop and his regime. Per the cover notes, "Thus began Burke's unlikely ascent to the top of one of the country's largest law enforcement jurisdictions. He and a crew of likeminded allies utilized vengeance, gangster tactics, and political leverage to become the most powerful and feared figures in their suburban empire". A very vivid illustration of the idea behind the term 'absolute power corrupts absolutely". Rich in detail but very readable.
Review Date: 3/17/2023
Helpful Score: 2
Excellent! One of the best books I've read. I am usually somewhat anxious to finish a book to find out how it ends. With this one I could have just kept bouncing along on the journey for another couple of hundred pages and enjoying the ride.
Review Date: 10/2/2020
Kathryn Casey's non-fiction books are consistently very well researched and detailed, but written in a way that makes them read like a novel.
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