I Did It For You

Just loved this storyline. Greer had left her home town to get away from her parents who after their daughter had been murdered no longer seemed to want her around them. When two more young ones are killed in a copycat killing Greer goes home straight away. Her sisters killer had confessed, been convicted and executed but Greer always thought that there was someone else involved. She soon finds help where she wouldn't have expected it. What she will find out eventually will shock her to her core and there is no coming back from it.
A very fast paced and exciting read.

Greer's sister was murdered. Her murderer, who confessed to the slaying was executed by the State. Fourteen years later there's a copycat killing which causes Greer to return to the town of her tragedy in the hope she can find some answers, both to her sister's killing and the copycat, which her gut feeling is telling her is linked.
So, the scene is set and we the reader, walk alongside Greer in the hope of discovering the link. Ludlow is a small town where people's lives are entwined in a manner that could never happen in a large city. So we peer in to the minutiae of people's lives and relationships but we must be reminded that the first killings were fourteen years ago and heady teenage emotions were then at play.
I really enjoyed this novel, it was detailed and immersive. Plausible to a degree but only in a country where guns are readily available. If you want to be lost in people's lives for however long it takes you to read a book then this is definitely a novel for you.

If you think this is going to be yet another tale of the main character leaving the 'mid-west' US town in teens, making good (or so-so in this case) and returning to find no-one else seems to have left the town in heading for a couple of decades you would be very wrong. This is a really good read, moves along at a good pace and doesn't go over the top with the typical and violent 'Hollywood style ending'.
When reading 'whodunnits' I always decide who the culprit is/was without necessarily knowing why. For once in this book I actually got it right! This doesn't mean the book is not cryptic and full of clues - I was just lucky for once.
Definitely worth reading if you are into murder mysteries. Loved every minute