Nach rund 15% abgebrochen, mein Deppenalarm wollte gar nicht mehr aufhören, Alarm zu schlagen... ( )

Started yesterday, March 20th 2013.
Obvious parallels to Ted Bundy - Ann Rule's Book "The stranger beside me".
Frequent flashbacks from the present to a serial killer case 25 years earlier, where the killer, like Bundy, was killed on the electric-chair.
No page-turner, felt too long - with 280 pages that should not be the case!
Good idea, too many discussions about personal feelings, which did nothing for me nor to further the story.
The most interesting character was the Senior Serial Killer.
Also the only sympathetic one, Elizabeth was ok, but I did not care wether she lives or dies.
There where a few twists, and although I did not guess who the real killer was I was not too far off.
But the twists came late, most near the end and in a way that they only concluded the story, more like an afterthought explanation.
Rather lame writing.
Want to give 2.5 stars, but that is not possible, it is not so bad as to warrant only 2 stars, so 3 it is.
Looking back I thought that this would be better, more terrorising or at least the hunt would be good.
Got this as a 99 ct. book from Amazon, got one other from him a few months later (Burning Man), will read this soon as to decide wether I drop this writer from my to-buy/to-read list.
Recommendation: read this if you are interested how someone might handle being the son of a convicted serial-killer.
Do not read this if you suspect a lot of mystery or a page-turner.
I would rather recommend A J Holt: Broken, but that is out of print and not even here on Goodreads to be found. And it has been a long time since I read this, so I may be wrong. ( )

I received this book as a Goodreads ARC giveaway. This was a great book and I really enjoy it ( )

Meh. It seemed way too long, not as over-long as the other Alan Russell book I read, but I don't think I'll read any more of his stuff. ( )

This is the reissue of a book originally published in 1998 but it has stood the test of time well. It centers on a series of ritualistic murders of young women and a female true crime author who gets herself sucked into the vortex of all the violence. So, it is not a musical comedy. It reads much like a non fiction true crime book. The pace is fast and it kept my interest. Some things in the book I guessed in advance and some I didn't but that is OK. My main problem with it is a character named Lola who for very little apparent reason takes a big interest in helping out one of the principal murder suspects. She doesn't show up until the book is about half over. How ever that aside the book is worth reading if you tike your books dark and gritty. ( )