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Craigslist Murders (2011)

by Brenda Cullerton(Favorite Author)

2.68 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1299571492 (ISBN13: 9781299571495)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Melville House Publishing

review 1: Charlotte, an interior designer goes around tracking down her potential rich and ungrateful victims on Craigslist. She kills them with a poker when she goes to their million dollar homes on the pretense that she is going to be buying whatever they are selling. Charlotte has issues. Her mother was cruel to her growing up, is still cruel to her as an adult, and this is why Charlotte has turned against wealthy and spoiled women. Her mother is one such person. Very briefly, here and there, we get a glimpse into her childhood and what took place, and in the present day of her (lack of) relationship with her mother dying. I feel this story could had been written better, as it did have a good story line, but unfortunately, fell short. I especially felt that way in the last... more chapter. It all of a sudden wrapped up, 18 months later, and I was wondering who I was reading about for around 2 or 3 pages before I realized it was Charlotte. So I reread it again, knowing it was about her. I felt very disappointed in the way it ended. Early on in the story, page 16, was the dead giveaway of Charlotte eventually being caught (or is she?) when a friend notices her bracelet and asks where she got it from? "Craiglist", replied Charlotte. Brenda Cullerton is definitely no Agatha Christie! I knew right there that's what she would be busted on. Another moment in the story that popped out to me, and was also early in the book on page 21. Charlotte is in a newscafe, and "a teenage boy with huge wooden plugs in his ear lobes sat sprawled in the chair next to her. The skin of the lobe had stretched so much, the flesh seemed to drip, like clocks in a Dali painting." Where does Brenda Cullerton come up this stuff? Oh dear! Let's carry on in what happens next, "Hey, lady," the boy said, tugging hard on his ear when he caught her staring, "You want the name of the guy put these in?" Yeah, cause that pleasant conversation would really happen right?
review 2: I received a free digital copy through Net Galley."Charlotte had been getting away with murder for years." That's the opening line of this book, and it successfully drew me in. Then I met Charlotte: a woman just as shallow and whiny as the women she loathes! I wanted to like this one; I really did. But that just didn't happen. I was expecting a fun read with some dark humor, but all I got was a self-absorbed, interior decorator irritating the heck out of me for 200+ pages. Even after her "breakthrough" with her therapist, I just could not bring myself to care about Charlotte or her terrible past. I can't honestly recommend this book, but I'm sure someone out there may enjoy it more than I did. less

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