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A Killing In Iowa: A Daughter's Story Of Love And Murder (2011)

by Rachel Corbett(Favorite Author)

2.97 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Byliner, Inc.

review 1: This is the story of a young girl whose mother lived with a boyfriendfor quite awhile ,along with this girl as a youngster. She remembers the guy from her younger years. The relationship went on for quite awhile,but then started going haywire .The guy eventually moved out and then in with another girlfriend . He ended up being found dead in the house,along with the girlfriend . The author tries to go back in time and investigate a bit further into what happened in this guy's life & death .
review 2: I found this book to be disappointing. It was not investigative journalism. It wasn't really an investigation of the author's personal feelings. The author never went into the drugs in the house, etc. The author never went into her own feelings so it wasn't real... morely autobiographical. The author discusses the flooding of the Mississippi River and then says that Vinton flooded in 1993 but Vinton is on the Cedar River. The work did have a few interesting pieces- "At one point, more than a quarter of all homicide cases in the state were murder-suicides."- "John Deere laid off 10,000 workers in my family’s hometown, Cedar Falls. Many of them moved away to find new jobs, leaving behind so many empty homes that, by 1989, some 10 percent of all houses in town were for sale." (I remember that!)- "But here, the flat topography was sliced into six-mile-square townships, each divided into thirty-six sections—just the size for a family farm. It meant that isolation was literally built into the soil."Sadly, I cannot recommend this piece. less

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