Tag Archives: serial killers

Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Anna Waterhouse

Posted on October 21, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) It surprises me that legendary basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has now written fifteen books since he retired from sports. His fascination with the Arthur Conan Doyle books has him writing his third installment in a series … Continue reading →

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Combustible Punch: An enthralling and unnerving probe into the complex mind of a murderer – Paul Michael Peters

Posted on October 17, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “It’s never the pain at the moment that hurts us. It’s that we are always going to have it, always going to carry it with us. “ Rick Phillips never fully recovered from a high school … Continue reading →

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Mr. Glamour – Richard Godwin

Posted on April 30, 2019 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by Don Jung) This is a dark murder mystery based on the jet- set crowd of London. Two detectives assigned to the case have very demented and bizarre personal lives. Oddly enough, they’re after a serial killer who seeks … Continue reading →

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Mother Of – Lauren Coffin

Posted on October 29, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Meredith Mayes is facing the unthinkable. Her husband and son died in a car crash ten years ago. Now, her other son Percy has been penned with the nicknames “The Minor Street Monster”, “The Ann Arbor … Continue reading →

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Serial Killers: Horror and Murder: Scary and True Stories of the Most Terrifying Serial Killers the World has Ever Seen! – Frank C. Chastain

Posted on August 13, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) Don’t be fooled by the book cover! You may think it was taken right out of a tabloid headline. No, Serial Killers takes a mostly objective look at some of the world’s darkest and most notorious … Continue reading →

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The Skin Room – Morgan Fleetwood

Posted on May 22, 2018 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “…I was already imagining her insides —I am not one to stop at the body naked. My imagination ran behind the flesh, into the pulp. I imagined her glistening innards, her yellow and purple heart, the … Continue reading →

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Neanderthal Man – Cay Gould

Posted on March 13, 2017 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Among all the things she told herself about Adam Savent, imagined about him, she just never got so far as to confront what she knew and should have confessed to someone, anyone, her knowledge that Adam … Continue reading →

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The Devil’s Defender: My Odyssey Through American Criminal Justice from Ted Bundy to the Kandahar Massacre – John Henry Browne

Posted on August 1, 2016 by J D Jung

(Reviewed by JD Jung) “Does helping the devil make you a devil too? That is, while defending Ted Bundy did I somehow absorb evil?” Many question the motives of attorneys like John Henry Browne as to why they agree to … Continue reading →

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