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Bury Me Deep (2009)

by Megan Abbott(Favorite Author)

3.68 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416599096 (ISBN13: 9781416599098)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: Apparently this is not one of Megan Abbott's better books, but it was the cheapest of them in the Kindle Store when I bought it. It was still one of those books that made me wish Goodreads allowed 3.5 star ratings… I don't even care about any other half-star levels, I just want 3.5! This is to say I liked it better than "just" liking it, but did I REALLY like it? Eh, well…The problem with this book is that the first two-thirds or so are pretty slow. It is not that fun reading about Marion Seeley drinking with her new friends or getting seduced by an asshole serial womaniser. By the end of the book I was glued, getting fed up when my train got to the station where I had to get off and go to work for eight hours – but all of that compelling reading was just in the very... more last part of the book! And it's not even a very long book! It just seems a bit wasteful.This, however, is something that established Megan Abbott fans have complained about in their reviews of this book, so I'm determined I should try another. If it's like the last third of this book, I'll love it.
review 2: Oh Wikipedia you are a gift to the world, without you I never would have learned of Winnie Ruth Judd and the notorious trunk murders. How I stared at that dismembered leg in horror. Thank you Megan Abbott for going in your way back machine and bringing the world this clusterfuck of intrigue, murder, illicit sex, lesbianism and dope addiction. Marion Seeley has been burdened with a husband who can’t keep a job due to his morphine addiction. His latest attempt at a livelihood and sobriety is taking a doctors post in Mexico for a mining company. He finds her a job at a TB clinic and leaves her in a small southwest town to fend on her own until he can make enough scratch to start over again. Marion becomes fast friends with Louise and her roommate Ginny. The girls begin to corrupt the young ministers daughter with parties, hooch and men, well one man really. His name is Joe or Gent Joe as the girls call him, and he’s the town big shot. He’s also a deceitful lech and master manipulator. Since he’s the owner of a chain of drug stores he does big business at the clinic where Marion works, and that’s his main hunting ground. Joe zeroes in on Marion, sizes her up and chases her accordingly. Of course Marion falls for it, and she learns the things her junkie of a husband never taught her about sex. It all goes wrong when Joe moves on to newer and younger conquests. While Louise and Ginny depended on Joe for money by being his personal pimps he now has Marion to do his dirty work. This causes an epic fight that results in murder with Marion left to take the fall. Murder, sex, abuse of pharmaceuticals, hooch, slangy dialogue, sin, infidelity, philandering husbands oh my! This is a wonderful noir of a book that would have made a great film in the late 30s and early 40s. Someone should make this book into a film but style it in an old timey way. less

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