Dick Myers is a psychology professor from Chicago that is afraid he's about to lose his job unless he can achieve notoriety by getting a research paper published that'll garner him accolades. And Dick knows exactly what to write about - Travis Coble. You see Travis is a modern day Lizzie Borden. He lives in the remote wilderness of the Smokey Mountains and twenty years ago he was acquitted of murdering and eating his parents. For the past twenty years, Coble has had to live in the eye of public scrutiny and Myers thinks that will make for a fine paper. A paper that will save his job. He'll just travel into the backwoods of Tennessee and interview Coble. There's nothing to be afraid of since he was found innocent, right?

Janz story isn't completely original. It wears it's influences of Deliverance and Texas Chainsaw Massacre proudly on its sleeve. And Janz delivers the goods with authority. His tale is so vividly descriptive, I dare you to read about the interview on the back porch of the remote cabin in a sweltering hundred degree heat and not reach for a glass of water. Just a fun, nasty read that'll stay with you for days. I can't praise it enough. ( )

Book source ~ Many thanks to Untreed Reads for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

It’s been 20 years since Travis Coble was acquitted in the murder of his two younger brothers, Ike and B.J. Dick Meyers, a psychology professor at a university in Chicago, wants to write a paper about Coble, how being acquitted by a jury of his peers yet still seen as a murderer by the locals has affected his life. The only important question that needs to be answered however is whether Meyers will come out of the interview unscathed.

Right out of the gate this story caused my skin to crawl with every word, every sentence, every paragraph, until I just wanted to yell at Meyers to get the hell outta there. That this wouldn’t end well. Oh boy, I hate when I’m right. ( )