Richard Chizmar

Chasing the Boogeyman

A Novel

What a great read!!! This book kept me hooked the entire time. My jaw dropped at the end. Thank goodness for the epilogue because I don’t think I would’ve been able to recover if it ended with the original publication only. SO GOOD! 

Alicia Sahr

Madhuri Sridhara

Sorry to say that this didn't work at all for me. DNF at 14%.

I'm a fan of true crime and I was excited to see a meta version of something in this genre but Chizmar's writing is tedious. He doesn't get to the point in all the time I read the book. He talks up the town and his happy days growing up in it with irrelevant details about his childhood home even mentioning how he's the favourite of his parents. I thought maybe it would get better given other's praises for the book but when the first victim is being described, he objectifies her. This reads more like a diary than anything else.

Thanks to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for an e-ARC of the book!

Chasing the Boogeyman

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