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Jasper “Jazz” Dent is obsessed with serials killers, and who could blame him considering his dad *is* one. His dad is finally locked up, leaving Jazz alone with his demented grandma, his friends, and his quest to prove to himself and the world that he‘s nothing like dear old dad. When another killer shows up in his hometown, Jazz finds himself wrapped up in the investigation. This fast moving YA story is a little Y for this A. (1/2)

I see a lot of people hate this book. It seems people had trouble with the structure, I read it a lot like The Devil In The White City. Multiple stories across the same time line. Mental disorders being related to pollution is seems too hard for people to believe, I saw a lot of hate for that. While it is an untested theory, are we too arrogant to believe there isn‘t something to all the environmental destruction? I say try this book.

Family playing in front of Ruston home as Tacoma smelter blows lead and arsenic. It would coat everything, animals would lick it off their paws and die. The greed of men truly knows no bounds.

This book was pretty heavy. I found the parts with the smelters to be the most interesting but found the murder details to the victims to be too sickening. Some say the bridge parts were boring but that bridge was a killer! Those bridges were perfect examples of greed and inaction by those in charge, choosing profit over the countless lives it took. This book is equally daunting as it is fascinating but i literally need months to recover from it

Sick day 🖤

Not really my lucky day when I pulled this 480pg book off the library shelf because it and I didn't get along. At all. I even tried using one of my Ever& credits for the audio and that was worst than just reading it with the narrator speaking at the slowest pace to ever be spoken and not being able to pronounce local names correctly. Beyond that the book wasn't good (IMO) too many threads - the author kept throwing herself and her abusive 👇

I was going to listen to the audio of this because the physical has become a super drag, but the narrator is saying local names wrong and nothing is more nails on the chalkboard then people who don't know how to say Willamette.
(Wuh-la-muht not Will-a-met, it is a first nations word.)

This was not what I expected. I enjoyed the book and the focus on environmental factors. Plus other than the way the narrator pronounced Rainer she got all the place names correct. #HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew #TBR #Recommend @PuddleJumper

This one was a fun picture to create but go with me here. The favorite criminal profiler I follow is Pat Brown. Pat Brown doesn‘t have ever in synch opinions with John Douglas so here they are in fisticuffs in front of the FBI building.

This does appear to be a criminal profiler thing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The book here is older case reviews. Pat used to teach Profiling at Excelsior which would interesting to follow along, I await her reading suggestions.