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A review by mezzoir
A Murder In My Hometown by Rebecca Morris
3.0
3.5 stars
This book is true to its marketing. It is a book about the authors return to her hometown almost 50 years later, to write about the murder of a classmate and how it changed the town and the lives of the victim’s friends. Aficionados of true crime – this book may not be for you as it is really a memoir/murder mystery book.
For most part Rebecca manages the segues between the crime and anecdotes of her life, the town and the people touched by the crime quite well and the book flows, and reads, well with the exception of one annoying blemish.
When writing about true crime it much easier for the reader to follow the investigation if the author can maintain a chronological order – especially when we are talking about events in a single day.
The chapter, The Partygoers, starts at midnight with detectives visiting the home where the victim had last been seen alive, then jumps to a long sequence with the victim’s girlfriend which you find out pages later is taking place at 11:00pm and then goes back to the midnight visit with bits of how the body was discovered that morning in the middle. As this occurs very early in the book when you are trying to get your head around just who is who in the book it would read better if the events were sequential.
It was an enjoyable read and I would read more from this writer.
This book is true to its marketing. It is a book about the authors return to her hometown almost 50 years later, to write about the murder of a classmate and how it changed the town and the lives of the victim’s friends. Aficionados of true crime – this book may not be for you as it is really a memoir/murder mystery book.
For most part Rebecca manages the segues between the crime and anecdotes of her life, the town and the people touched by the crime quite well and the book flows, and reads, well with the exception of one annoying blemish.
When writing about true crime it much easier for the reader to follow the investigation if the author can maintain a chronological order – especially when we are talking about events in a single day.
The chapter, The Partygoers, starts at midnight with detectives visiting the home where the victim had last been seen alive, then jumps to a long sequence with the victim’s girlfriend which you find out pages later is taking place at 11:00pm and then goes back to the midnight visit with bits of how the body was discovered that morning in the middle. As this occurs very early in the book when you are trying to get your head around just who is who in the book it would read better if the events were sequential.
It was an enjoyable read and I would read more from this writer.