{"id":4760,"date":"2025-11-10T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4760"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T10:11:01","slug":"audiobook-review-wrench-in-the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=4760","title":{"rendered":"AudioBook Review: Wrench In the Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wrench in the Plan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by Jay Shirtz<\/p>\n

Genre:<\/strong> Audiobook \/ Mystery, Thriller & Suspense \/ Crime<\/p>\n

Length:<\/strong> 10 h 26 mins<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reviewed by Toni Woodruff<\/em> | Content warnings: pedophilia, child sexual abuse<\/em><\/p>\n

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John Edmund Pike is a pedophile and a child killer.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s being trudged around Texas by FBI Agent Ray Winkle more on a publicity tour than a vengeance tour. It\u2019s not humiliating for Pike. It seems almost to benefit him\u2014giving him the exact kind of attention he seeks. But Winkle, however flawed he might be, isn\u2019t doing it to help Pike; he\u2019s trying to help families get closure after a string of them are struck with trauma from missing children.<\/p>\n

And yet, some families don\u2019t want this kind of closure. Their pain is too raw and volatile. They\u2019re seeking a different kind. That\u2019s why a traumatized mother seeks the help of one Mr. Fontaine\u2014a guy known around town to be able to \u201ctake care\u201d of people, if you know what I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n

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Winkle, two ladies of the night\u2014Brandy and Brandi\u2014and their pimp Jimmy Sambuchi all play their part in a grand scheme to take down Pike. What results is a ruckus crime thriller with blood spilled and cinematic chases across the bayou.<\/p>\n

Wrench In the Plan<\/em> is the kind of late-night thriller you won\u2019t be fighting to keep your eyes open for; you\u2019ll be too busy clutching the sheets, dying to hit fast forward to find out what could come next. It\u2019s gritty and dark and doesn\u2019t shy away from anything. If you\u2019re looking for jaw-dropping and spine-tingling crime, you\u2019ve come to the right place.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wide-sweeping tale set in the American South around 1980, and it\u2019s told from varying perspectives. It\u2019s like your favorite police procedurals except with every angle of the crime told from every background character, making it far more crime than investigation. And that\u2019s kind of what we came here for. It\u2019s not the mystery\u2014it\u2019s the thrill. And it comes in droves.<\/p>\n

The characters often toe the line of moral ambiguity, and they\u2019ve all got their own allure. Jay Shirtz\u2019s narration brings their personalities to life across demographics and excitement levels. It\u2019s a cinematic story told with cinematic flare\u2014the perfect combination for the audio format. Jimmy Sambuchi and Brandy are just a couple of the standout characters; each time a character returns, it\u2019s easy to remember them from Shirtz\u2019s narration as well as their own distinct role to play in the crime.<\/p>\n

Squeamish listeners should probably step away from this one though. It\u2019s not a book that pulls up short on its shock and tragedy. There a number of cringey moments that\u2019ll make your blood boil, especially from Pike\u2019s explanations. Even readers who are comfy in toeing the line could feel some of it is taken too far. It really is a heartbreaker for all those at least a little sensitive to the depravity enacted upon children in this dark, dangerous world.<\/p>\n

The cinematic nature of it all really drives the narrative home. Put down your true crime podcasts and slip this creepy, shocking, torturous story into your earbuds while you\u2019re doing dishes or making the morning commute. It\u2019s electrified with those late-night thrills you remember from midnight television, except with the censors off and the volume turned all the way up.<\/p>\n

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