The Butcher by Jennifer Hillier
on November 5, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Crime, Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General, Fiction / Sagas, Fiction / Thrillers / Crime, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 352
Format: eBook
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In 1985, Edward Shank famously gunned down the Beacon Hill Butcher, ending the serial killer’s reign of terror over the city of Seattle. But now in his eighties, Edward’s action-packed glory days are long behind him. The decorated former Seattle police chief has given up his high-maintenance Victorian home to his grandson Matt for a quiet life at the nearby Sweetbay Village Retirement Residence, where mac-n-cheese Wednesdays have become the highlight of his week.
Though it’s hard to watch his grandfather get older, Matt is thrilled to inherit the large house he grew up in. Already an accomplished chef with a popular restaurant and a TV show in the works, Matt’s dream life is finally within reach…until he discovers a crate buried in the backyard that holds a secret about his grandfather so terrible, it threatens to ruin all their lives if it ever gets out. Especially his girlfriend Sam’s, whose mother was killed when she was only two years old. As Matt struggles with his dark family secret, Sam’s obsession with solving her mother’s murder continues to grow. A true crime writer now working on a book about the Butcher, Sam has always suspected her mother was one of his victims, even though she was killed two years after the Butcher was supposedly gunned down. But when new victims begin to turn up, their murders eerily similar to the Butcher’s all those years ago, Sam realizes she might be right. The more she digs into the old murders, the more dangerous it gets…and the truth is closer to home than she ever could have imagined.
THIS BOOK IS NUTS. So sick, so twisty, so wild! The characters were all flawed and even my most hated characters, I couldn’t help but race through their chapters and delve deeper into their depraved mindset. Yes, the book is predictable, but I didn’t care, the characters and the plot were so just too exciting and thrilling. There was one twist I did not see coming and I almost spat out my dinner in utter shock and disgust!
4.5 stars for this novel. This book is different as the reveal is told very early on and we spend the rest of the book seeing how it will unfold and whether said people will get their comeuppance! Now let me just say… CHECK YOUR TRIGGER WARNINGS! This book is depraved, vile and pretty much offensive… I ate it up!
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