Dixie B. (ontedge) reviewed on 5/15/2009 + 42 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 7

This is a very interesting true crime story in which a grandmother is savagely murdered
in a crime of rage. The case itself and how the murderer is finally brought to justice
is very interesting, and different from most, due to the overkill of the victim.

However, I felt the book would have been more solid in another, more experienced, author's hands. Authors Mary Kinney Branson and Jack Branson were personally related to the victim and seemed to fill the book with too many personal details and characters that didn't affect the story in any way. The cast of characters seemed endless and required extra time for me to stop and mentally place who this individual was in the
overall picture. Perhaps, because it's a personal story to them, they didn't want to offend anyone that knew the victim, or leave out the tiniest detail.
Very distracting to the reader, though...

Good book - interesting case - but it requires more than the average patience to read.

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