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Murder List
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Murder List
Julie Garwood
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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ASIN: 0345453824
Release Date: 2004-08-31

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There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills, edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully as Julie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with Murder List, in which evil is on the hunt– and proves to be methodically organized and chillingly successful.

When Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is the perfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in his brothers’ footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. But first he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is not too happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled in some potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her a graphic crime-scene photo–and the victim is no stranger.

Regan suspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help a journalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys on lonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr. Lawrence Shields may be responsible for the death of one of his devotees, which was ruled a suicide. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar.

At the gathering, the doctor persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little “cleansing” exercise. He asks them to make a list of the people who have hurt or deceived them over the years, posing the question: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along. After ten minutes, Shields instructs the participants to bring their sheets of paper to the fireplace and throw them into the flames. But Regan misses this part of the program when she exits the room to take a call–and barely escapes a menacing individual in the parking lot.

The experience is all but forgotten–until the first person on Regan’s list turns up dead. Shock turns to horror when other bodies from the list start to surface, as a harrowing tango of desire and death is set into motion. Now brutal murders seem to stalk her every move–and a growing attraction to Alec may compromise her safety, while stirring up tender emotions she thought she could no longer feel. Yet as the danger intensifies and a serial killer circles ever closer, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.

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When Chicago detective Alec Buchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is the perfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in his brothers' footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. But first he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is not too happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiress Regan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled in some potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her a graphic crime-scene photo—and the victim is no stranger.

Regan suspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help a journalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys on lonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr. Lawrence Shields may be responsible for the death of one of his devotees, which was ruled a suicide. Hoping to find some damning evidence, Regan attends a Shields seminar.

At the gathering, the doctor persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little “cleansing” exercise. He asks them to make a list of the people who have hurt or deceived them over the years, posing the question: Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist? Treating the exercise as a game, Regan plays along. After ten minutes, Shields instructs the participants to bring their sheets of paper to the fireplace and throw them into the flames. But Regan misses this part of the program when she exits the room to take a call—and barely escapes a menacing individual in the parking lot.

The experience is all but forgotten—until the first person on Regan's list turns up dead. Shock turns to horror when other bodies from the list start to surface, as a harrowing tango of desire and death is set into motion. Now brutal murders seem to stalk her every move—and a growing attraction to Alec may compromise her safety, while stirring up tender emotions she thought she could no longer feel. Yet as the danger intensifies and a serial killer circles ever closer, Regan must discover who has turned her private revenge fantasies into grisly reality.

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I found this book entertaining.......2007-05-18

Julie Garwood and Judith McNaught are my all time favorite authors. This book was entertaining, but of course nothing compares to Garwood's earlier novels. When she started writing contemporary stories they lacked a bit of the former thrill, even so, I still liked this book and really like the Buchanen men. Same with McNaught, Paradise is excellent! Perfect, Double Standards, but her newest books almost seem to be written by another author. Read the earlier books on both of these authors and you wont' be dissapointed.

Murder List.......2007-05-09

I thought this novel was fast-paced and had an interesting group of characters. I enjoyed it very much.

A Dismal Waste of Time.......2007-03-23

This was the first book I picked up by this prolific "author" (and I use that term loosely)and it was a slam-dunk disappointment all the way around. The writing was pitiful--untrained and obviously unedited. Her POV was all over the place, literally changing voices from paragraph to paragraph. Her characters were cardboard cutouts that resembled the creations of other, more talented authors, and failed to come alive or even speak like normal humans.

I read it because I was led to believe (by the cover) that it was a thriller/mystery. It was solely a romance novel--the "mystery" elements were tacky and commonplace, and secondary to the badly-told love story.

The heroine, Regan, acts like she is fifteen years old, as do her two girlfriends. The Hero, a cop named Alec, while just as cardboard and predictable, was inserted only for the purpose of falling in love with Regan. The element of his brothers also being in law enforcemnt seemed to me to be a direct copy of Mariah Burke's family in an excellent and thriling series she has fashioned.

Indeed, every element of this novel seemed as if it were copied from other writers and then put together piecemeal. The novel starts out with a subplot about a charismatic self-help guru, then suddenly that plot is shoved to the back burner while we go off on another plot where a demented psycho is trying to murder Regan. The "guru" subplot never really goes anywhere--it simply fizzles out. The psycho chasing Regan is inept and certainly not menacing at all--he's just a jerk. No, he's a device to get Regan alone with her cop/bodyguard--which just, coincidentally, he becomes--imagine that!

It's a quirk of mine, but I always read the entire novel, even if I'm not liking it, so I read it all, every last, poorly-writen page, and I can tell you: don't waste your time! This book offers nothing to no one.

Loved Murder List.......2007-03-18

I absolutely loved Murder List. I had been looking at it for a while in the stores and finally bought it from Amazon.com and while it only took a week to read it - I loved it. I love most of Julie Garwood's books but this continuation of a family story was really good. It can be read alone, but when I found out it was a part of a set of books starting w/ the Heartbreaker and including Mercy then I knew I had to read it. And was not disappointed - if you like Julie Garwood you will like this book. Again it can be read alone but the enjoyment is increased if you also read the other books loosely connected to it.

Great Read.......2007-03-17

I think this a great read! I'm a fan of her historical romance and am delighted to discover that she writes a thriller/romance almost as well. I loved her characters in this novel and the plot twists will keep you thinking the whole time through. I read this book cover-to-cover in one sitting. . . couldn't put it down! Nice read for a rainy day.

The Wrong Murder (Library of Crime Classics)

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The Wrong Murder (Library of Crime Classics)
Craig Rice
Manufacturer: International Polygonics
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ASIN: 1558820671

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Very good legal mystery
Axelrood Outdoes Himself!
Developing Chicago series and writer

Death Eligible
Larry Axelrood
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
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Plea Bargain: A Novel (Darcy Cole Mystery)
The Advocate

ASIN: 1581823924

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Death Eligible is the story of two death penalty cases. Both of them involve rape and murder, and though the defendants are as different from each other as night and day, the similarities of the two cases are uncanny. As Darcy Cole defends both men, the twists and turns their cases take as they proceed to the courtroom make for compelling and electrifying reading.

Darcy Cole¹s life has become a bit more complicated than it was in previous books, both by his caseload and by the fact that his love interest, Dr. Amy Wagner, is about to turn fifty. This milestone makes her want to celebrate with more than cake and ice cream, and she plans to travel to a developing country to help sick and starving people in need. Darcy is afraid for her safety, but also afraid for their relationship. Where does he fit in?

Meanwhile, a young attorney with an odd nickname joins Darcy¹s team and seems to fit right in. A crisis in one of the cases threatens to undermine his confidence, but Darcy comes to his rescue and teaches him an important lesson.

Just as in his previous two Darcy Cole novels - The Advocate and Plea Bargain - Larry Axelrood skillfully brings the complex threads of several plots together to form an exciting, riveting courtroom drama with generous doses of lightness and humor. Fans of Darcy Cole and new readers alike will not be able to put down Death Eligible until its thrilling conclusion.

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Very good legal mystery.......2006-04-04

Mr. Axelrood is yet another attorney who writes extremely well and in my opinion doesn't get the readership he deserves. All three of his Darcy Cole books are very good - arguably this may be his best. Cole runs his own private, (small but lucrative), criminal defense firm in downtown Chicago and finds himself defending two rapists/murderers - both facing the death penalty - and individually from decidedly different "sides of the tracks". The author presents all the legal (and moral) issues involved in these crimes,(the justice system, the individuals involved, the recent political circumstances of trying such cases in Illinois), in a coherent, objective and human way. Not easy to do with this issue. The author has also written a very engaging mystery to boot. If there is a fault in this book, it's the rushed courtroom/trial resolution in the last 25-30 pages of the book. That said, the plot, characters, dialog, setting, balancing and writing are all excellent. If you are a fan of Buffa, Rosenfelt, Lescroart or Tapply you will enjoy this author's books.

Axelrood Outdoes Himself!.......2004-05-21

This third installment in the Darcy Cole series is easily Axelrood's best yet. In a non-judgmental manner which lets the reader make up his or her own mind, the author lays out compelling circumstances in a compelling narrative that point up the weaknesses in a system that has capital punishment, and at the same time reveals in a realistic manner those special circumstances that cry out for the ultimate punishment.

Darcy Cole continues to be an intriguing literary character whose age and experience bespeak a persona too often lacking in cookie cutter characters going blithely through cookie cutter plots so common in today's legal fiction. Instead, Axelrood has given us a character (and similarly engaging supporting characters) in whose fate we genuinely care about, and at the same time has crafted a page-turning good yarn. It also has a distinct "Chicago" feel, without the obligatory cheap references to Michael Jordan or machine politics. Instead, that "feel" comes from one who has apparently lived what he is talking about.

Developing Chicago series and writer.......2004-05-05

All the moral and legal complexities pertinent to the death penalty are on display in this nicely crafted third novel in Mr. Axelrood's legal series featuring criminal defense attorney Darcy Cole. Axelrood has gotten stronger with each successive novel, and I look forward to future installments in the series. In my opinion, the criminal legal world is accurately represented as being largely disinterested in JUSTICE, the grand concept, and far more susceptible to political considerations than any of us would hope to be the case. Especially enjoyable to me are the prose snapshots of life in Chicago in the series, with many familiar locales popping up.

The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels))

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Not as good as some of Rick Geary's other Victorian murder books
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A good start...
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H. H. Holmes, Plain and Simple

The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes (Treasury of Victorian Murder (Graphic Novels))
Rick Geary
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ASIN: 1561633623

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He was the worldÕs first serial killer and he existed in the late 19th century, operating around the Chicago WorldÕs Fair, building a literal house of horrors, replete with chutes for dead bodies, gas chambers, surgical rooms. He methodically murdered up to 200 people, mostly young women. The infamous H.H. Holmes is the next subject of GearyÕs award-winning and increasingly popular series.

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Not as good as some of Rick Geary's other Victorian murder books.......2006-08-07

As always, Rick Geary's art is stupendous, yet as other reviewers have noted, much more could have been done with this graphic novel. The bizarre nooks, crannies, and asphyxiation rooms of H.H.Holmes' castle would have made for a visual feast, but unfortunately Geary focuses on these matters relatively briefly, choosing instead to spend time following Holmes step-by-step as he abandons one wife and child after another and murders his way through most of the children in the Pietzel family. Still, a competent introduction to one of the more horrifying figures of 19th century America.

Need Background Information before Reading.......2006-04-24

After reading Erik Larson's non fictional/fictional Devil in the White City book which received critical praise I decided to look at Rick Geary's pictoral novel. Recommended for children in 8th grade i feel this book fails to deliver alot of the back ground information into the 1893 World Fair nor H.H. Holmes. Instead this book gives anyone interested into learning more about both topics alot of holes in the story making it hard to completly understand H.H. Holmes and his murderous rage he left on Chicago. For those who have background knowledge on this subject thi book acts as a quick refresher. Those looking to know the real story of H.H. Holmes I recommend reading The Devil in the White CIty.

A good start..........2005-06-29

Rick Geary, The Beast of Chicago (ComicsLit, 2003)

Man, this is a brilliant idea: a graphic novel about H. H. Holmes, who after decades of obscurity has returned to prominence thanks to The Devil in the White City. (Put aside that Allan W. Eckert attempted to revive the Holmes mystique in the thrilling The Scarlet Mansion twenty years before, one of the formative books of my childhood and youth, and one that desperately needs to come back into print at this particular point in history.) Think of all the fun stuff you could do with a serial killer graphic novel! Oh, wait, you don't have to, you can read From Hell. (And you should.) But, let's face it, we know a lot more about H. H. Holmes, and we suspect even more, and all the great floor plans for that fantastic house are simply begging for graphic novel treatment.

So why is Geary's attempt at the subject matter a paltry, albeit quite gorgeous and wonderfully packaged, eighty pages long? I've no idea. (As a side light, this is the first graphic novel I've read recently where the people who catalog this stuff at the library shouldn't be fired outright for putting it in the YA section, which is rather ironic given its subject matter.) He could have spent eighty pages just on drawings of various aspects of the house, with all its twisting passageways, secret rooms, laboratories, and the like. Instead, the Castle itself gets about a fifth of that, with Holmes' exploits both before and after taking up considerably more room.

His is worth checking out, because it is quite beautifully drawn and does shed light on a much-neglected chapter of American history, but it seems more like a skeletal outline than a finished product. Hopefully, there will be a revised, expanded edition somewhere down the line that does Holmes-- and his victims-- the justice they deserve. ***

Disappointing.......2004-10-13

Sometime around 1998 I discovered a paragraph or two about the killer Herman Mudgett on some amateur websites, the kind of seat-of-the-pants efforts that consigned them to early webdeaths. They offered measly details about Mudgetts appearance and his castle, but the rousing story arc was there; A fiendish charlatan preying on travelers trekking to Chicago to see the 1893 Worlds Fair, followed by a chase and his "castle" in flames. The details were sparse but they had the intended effect; they were spine-tingling. A lack of photos kept the imagery just out of reach. It was tantalizing to wonder what the castle looked like. Was it something to compete with Chicago's contemporaneous Potter Palmer castle? How had Mudgett's castle escaped mention in all the Chicago architecture histories I'd read? How had Mudgett fallen from the collective memory of a city and a nation, while Lizzie Borden's parents made their bloody exit and she remains notorious to this day? It was like the kids in A Nightmare on Elm Street, growing up oblivious about Freddy Krueger, what he'd done, and what their parents had in turn done to him.

The re-emergence of the Mudgett narrative in the last 5 years has been disappointing. None of these efforts have caught my imagination like those junky retellings where I first learned about him. I'd long ago accepted that Mudgetts "castle" was outwardly just an unremarkable 3-story corner store. The recent best seller, Devil in the White City (about the same topic), had narrative problems that continue here. Relievedly absent is that books excruciating A/B storyline structure, but just as D.I.T.W.C. foundered and got lost in insurance schemes, location shifts, and a rollcall of lesser figures, so does this.

It's the first time the story is told with imagery. One would think that the real opportunity here was the chance to envision those things that we haven't seen till now, and what is really unique about the case. The material should benefit from diagrams and graphics. But it just didn't come to life for me. In other titles in the series Geary's fastidious research and factuality are what make them compelling, here the facts concern the least interesting aspects of the crime: ancillary pawns that Mudgett encountered, and documentation of what he confessed after the fact. There's still way too little about the house. If you wrote about Sarah Winchester, would you start with her very factual checkbook entries? The story requires streamlining. As I read, I became impatient; how much longer would these uninteresting cross-country switcharoos continue? When would the castle and bodies show up? I wished Geary had consigned more of the late victims and shadowy flunkies to anonymity. For me the story IS Mudgett's house, and the way it's design assisted in the dispatch of victims. He saves those details for quite late in the story and then presents them in unpeopled tableaux. There is no horror per se. Worst of all, nearly all the victims simply disappear between panels in the drawings. The tease just goes on too long. Insurance claims, swindles, and train rides aren't especially frightening when visualized.

Unhelpful also is the delineation of "secret" rooms which are drawn exactly like the non-secret rooms you use all day. (How secret can they be..? the door's right there.) Likewise for callouts naming some of the castle's secrets which are not self-explanatory and never make it into the narrative. (The Maze, Five Door Room, Sealed Room, The Hanging Blind Room & Mysterious Closed Room...??!!)

Mudgett is just one of several deviate serial killers associated with Chicago (along with John Wayne Gacy, Larry Eyler, Leopold & Loeb and Richard Speck. And Jeffrey Dahmer snared some of his victims at Carols Speakeasy on Halsted, another Chicago location erased from the collective memory) Makes you wonder if there's something in the water.

This is my 4th title in the series. It is my 4th favorite.

H. H. Holmes, Plain and Simple.......2004-05-04

This is the latest in Rick Geary's series A Treasury of Victorian Murder. Many people have become fascinated with H. H. Holmes thanks to the book The Devil And The White City. But unlike that book, this is not a dramatization. Instead it is a simple chronological account of the man based on what little evidence actually exists.

Not a whole lot is know about Dr. Holmes, much is supposition and here say. Geary does an excellent job of recounting the facts as well as highlighting many inconsistencies in the legend (i.e. at one point Holmes admitted to the murder of 27 people but some of them were still alive).

Although Geary's series is written in a comic book format, this is not really a comic book. The reader is drawn in quickly and then the story is presented in a very clear and straightforward manner.

Whether this is your first account of Holmes or your tenth, I am sure you will find the story fascinating.

Polish Robbin' Hoods: The Inside Story of the Panczko Brothers, the World's Busiest Burglars

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Polish Robbin Hoods

Polish Robbin' Hoods: The Inside Story of the Panczko Brothers, the World's Busiest Burglars
Ed Baumann , and John O'Brien
Manufacturer: Bonus Books
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Polish Robbin Hoods.......2007-03-14

I purchsed this book because I remember reading a lot about the Panczko Brothers in the newspapers of the time. I liked the book.

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Murder at the Mla: A Novel
D. J. H. Jones
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Popular with academics and those who love a good traditional mystery, the paperback edition of Murder at the MLA is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press.

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murder as a sidebar.......2000-09-15

This book is only ostensibly a murder mystery, and is actually an excuse for the pseudonymous author to savage the prevailing subcultural norms of the academy. And I say 'more power to her!' And I am merely guessing at the gender of the author.

The murders themselves are often thrust into the background for pages on end as Boaz Dixon, homicide detective, and Nancy Cook, assistant professor of English at Yale, discuss the dysfunctional social structure and behavior of professors of English and comparative literature. When I started reading the book I was hoping that it would be more of a satire of post-modern posing among academics and that theme is in here, but "Jones" has a broader axe to grind and lets Prof. Cook lay into many aspects of the academic life. Cook's jeremiads on academia are made a believable part of the plot by the author's description of how very foreign the social norms and jargon of the academic community are to Dixon, a working class kid from Chicago with two years of college in his distant past. You can see that he really does need to know all of this in order to solve the crimes that have taken place in this community. The scene where Prof. Cook explains the manipulative placement of the coffee cart in a room where an interview takes place is hilarious precisely because it is so true and so barbaric.

The writing is occasionally uneven, but the passages that involve interaction between Dixon and Cook are funny, suggestive and deftly paced. The descriptions of the Chicago cops and the English professors are also very funny, but perhaps relied a bit too much on stereotyping.

I never stopped caring about how the plot would develop (i.e., who killed these professors?), but I was much more interested in who Boaz Dixon and Nancy Cook were and how their relationship would (or would not) develop.

This book has helped me (an academic) remember how to explain what I do and why I do it to my numerous non-academic friends. For that I thank D.J.H. Jones, whoever s/he is.

Half Past Nun: A Sister Mary Teresa Mystery

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Half Past Nun: A Sister Mary Teresa Mystery
Monica Quill
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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true crime at it's very best
... How Well Do You Know This Guy, Anyway?
Best book on Gacy
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Buried Dreams
Tim Cahill
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The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story
Killer Clown: John Wayne: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
The Chicago Killer
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I: The Creation of a Serial Killer

ASIN: 0553258362
Release Date: 1987-08-01

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true crime at it's very best .......2006-09-08

I first read this book in 1988 and recently read it again. It still gave me the creeps. In the same league as Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and The Boston Strangler by Gerald Frank. I highly recommend it.

... How Well Do You Know This Guy, Anyway?.......2006-07-28

Chilling. I could not put this one down. This book is a dramatized cover of the life and crimes of John Wayne Gacy which reads like a fiction novel (read: not boring or heavy with Dr. Bob said this) yet provides clear, factual, and consistent information in with some of the author's speculation as to what went on in the mind of Mr. Gacy.
The end result is a story which will make the hair on your arms stand on end - not only with possibilities and facts, but the feasible likeness of Mr. Gacy's mindset through his actions.

Best book on Gacy.......2006-04-16

I don't know how anyone my age or near my age who grew up in Chicago or the outlying suburbs could not remember the Gacy case. I had just turned 14 and was a freshman in high school when news first broke of his crimes. I remember my mother turning off the television for the 5:00 PM local news because of the lurid footage showing the remains being carried out of the house in bags. And I remember the Chicago Tribune running a full page showing individual pictures of all of the identified victims; the yearbook and school pictures of the boys looked like most of my classmates.

I first read this book back in 1987. I recently read it again, almost 20 years later, and I still believe it to be the most thorough, comprehensive book on Gacy. Cahill, an excellent journalist, has done an excellent job of presenting a complete picture of the man and his crimes. He managed to "get inside Gacy's head" (an unhealthy place) to give the reader a clear look of Gacy's personality, views on life, attitude towards his victims and reactions to his trial.

Along with covering the crimes, investigation, arrest and trial of Gacy, Cahill also delves into Gacy's childhood and early years, including his relationship with his abusive father. The book is detailed, and Cahill writes with the kind of insight that only comes from having a complete understanding of his subject. It's also clear that Cahill researched Gacy thoroughly, and he notes in his introduction that he culled his information from a number of sources.

As can be expected, this book is scary stuff, with two chapters in particular being extremely disturbing and frightening to read. Cahill doesn't merely describe, he casts the reader in the role of witness to one of Gacy's murders, showing Gacy's core of pure evil. That said, this is also the type of book that is tough to put down, and also the type that stays with you long after having finished it.

I too could not disagree more with the reviewer who accused Cahill of plagiarising "Killer Clown." They are two very different books. And while "Killer Clown" is a good book, written largely from a legal/trial and punishment perspective, the better of the two by far is "Buried Dreams." The best overall book on Gacy.

from the crawl space.......2004-01-19

It's 8 in the morning and im down here in the crawl space digging. i cant stand the smell and the people around here are begining to complain. "it's the sump pipe, besty.i'll take care of it soon." is my patten answer, but really... i dont care. As i bury my lastest prey (boy, it's getting easier every time), i say to my self " Jhon Gacy is a winner! I am the man!" The bodies bruied under the crawl are my trophies! See dad i'am a winner!If i could only get rid of the smell. anyway, im digging and then the doorbell rings. Great another puck asking about when he'll be paid or a copper asking about some kid...maybe the kid im burying now. i dust my pants off after leaving the crawl space and answer the door. "MR. Morgan, here is your package." the ups guy says. At that moment i realize that i just put down the best book i've every read about Jhon Gacy. this book is the best to date. After reading this book, you will have a deep understanding of a sick man and a understanding of how/why he commited these horriable crime---as if you witness them yourself. a real tour de force!!!

One of the Best in Print!.......2003-11-19

I read this book years ago and I've never forgotten it. Flawless writing and thorough research puts this book marginally ahead of "Killer Clown:The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan,Peter T Maiken" and miles ahead of the homophobic "The Man Who Killed Boys:The John Wayne Gacy,Jr. Story by Clifford L. Linedecker which is written with a to the point, cheap, sleazy flair.(like those awful Pinnacle True crime books with their hack writers) What makes this book so much better is it doesn't rely on cheap shocks and sordid discriptions to get it's point across and has a much more thorough account of what took place both before, during and after the murders. I felt at the end I knew more about Mr. Gacy than I ever really wanted to know...Truly Sick and bloodcurdling! If this book interests you try a few of these: The Man with Candy-Jack Olsen, Freed to Kill:The True Story of Serial Murderer Larry Eyler-Gera Lind Kolarik,Wayne Klatt, Angel of Darkness-Dennis McDougal they are really good! and really scary! They're about less Known but equally prolific serial killers who targeted the male gender.

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Murder and Mystery in Chicago
Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh
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Plea Bargain: A Novel (Darcy Cole Mystery)

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Plea Bargain: A Novel (Darcy Cole Mystery)
Larry Axelrood
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Sometimes a simple plea bargain is not what it appears to be, as criminal defense attorney Darcy Cole learns when he takes the case of Harry Feigler, a Chicago attorney who specializes in expunging the records of men who have been caught soliciting prostitutes. Sometimes also, Darcy reminds his associate Kathy Haddon, when a husband regularly comes home in the evening smelling like a bar and claiming to have been out with "friends," there may be no cause for alarm. Sometimes, too, a black man accused of murder in an apparently open-and-shut drug case has been set up and is innocent, and a beautiful, apparently distraught young woman who reports the disappearance of her boyfriend to the police is lying to distract attention from a real crime. Sometimes even a middle-aged police officer whose life is spiraling toward disaster discovers the inner qualities of character that attracted him to law enforcement in the first place, and the luck of the draw in emergency room physicians brings together a disenchanted lawyer and an overworked doctor in a romance that sizzles from the moment they first meet. These story lines, which at first glance appear to have no connection to one another, come together with high drama and humor in Plea Bargain. Nothing, it seems, is as it appears, and Darcy must sift through the illusions and deceptions to come to the actual truth. In the midst of fraud and deception, murder and betrayal, Darcy battles a legal system that seems more adept at administering injustice than in protecting the innocent. Filled with brilliant legal maneuvering and surprise after surprise, Plea Bargain spins a complicated path that will intrigue even the most avid readers of legal fiction and establish Darcy Cole as one of the most fascinating new series protagonists to appear in years, which was the case in The Advocate, the first book in the Darcy Cole series.

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Superb Read.......2003-01-04

For anyone who has ever spent any time in Chicago, or for anyone who has ever practiced criminal law, this book is a must read. Through Darcy Cole, Axelrood takes you from the Greak diners on the Northside where coppers eat for free, to the back offices of the Cook County State's Attorney's Grand Jury, to the diamond trade down in the loop.

Along the way, a cop's career and a lawyer's marriage are saved, and of course, justice is served.
Buy this book, you won't be disapointed.

A worthy sequel.......2002-10-20

This second novel from Mr. Axelrood is a worthy follow-up to his first, "The Advocate," about the personal and jurisprudential lives of his protagonist, Darcy Cole. As with that book, I found myself caught up from page one in the plot twists and the Chicago "justice" system machinations -- in which things and people rarely wind up as we first suspect. As a former Cook County prosecutor and current defense attorney in that same jurisdiction, it's a safe bet that Mr. Axelrood knows whereof he speaks when writing of the Chicago system, both its positives and negatives. Recommended strongly for fans of police and/or legal procedurals.

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