Crime

Two “true crime” stories written by the best selling author James Patterson. I listened to the audio version, which made me feel like I was listening to the sound track of one of NBC’s “Dateline” shows. I wasn’t familiar with the first story, “Murder Interrupted,” where a bored husband arranged for his wife’s murder. That story has literally been done on Dateline multiple times. The second story, “Mother of All Murders” is the strange story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard. This one is in the news right now because Gypsy Rose, at least the 2024 version of her, has just been released from prison after serving her 10-year sentence for participating in her mother’s murder. Timely but not much more entertaining than another Dateline show. I would say this, if you find yourself on a treadmill a few times a week, and you can’t seem to find anything to listen to, this might be your cup of tea. Like Dateline, you can come in and out of attention and not miss much in the interim. ( )

Typical Patterson book. Well written and bite sized chapters making it interesting and easy to read. It was really weird to read about the Carrollton Murder for hire story since I had lived mere blocks away from their home a few years before this all happened ( )

I think this was my first james Patterson...not thrilled with the storytelling personally but i love true crime . The 1st story in this book was obvious....as it tells the whole time who did the attempting..... The second was meh... Ok i suppose but not great. ( )

I I am a true crime fanatic. I think James Patterson did a good job on this. Not even a full length novel can capture all the small details of a real life crime. I’m not sure if these have begun airing on ID yet but I look forward to watching them. Onto book number two. ( )