All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
When Marie Catherine Hale is discovered covered head to toe in blood standing in the middle of a small town murder scene, she immediately becomes a witness in a series of gruesome murders. No one knows how these murders can be solved as little blood has been found on the scene and no suspects had been arrested yet. Marie agrees to be interviewed, but not by the police or the prosecutors. She only agrees to be interviewed to "tell her story" to the son of the town's sheriff.
Michael Jensen wants to be a journalist when he gets older and this might be his shot at stardom. Will he be able to get the truth out of this captivating suspected murderer? Or is she not a murderer at all? Just who, or quite possibly WHAT, is responsible for these horrific crimes?
I LOVED THIS BOOK. Blake acknowledges that it was influenced, in part, by the all-time classic In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and it reads eerily similarly. Any fan of true crime stories and murder mysteries will be engrossed in All These Bodies!
Obviously the subject matter (gore, mature content, adult themes) makes this book for more mature readers, but I will definitely be looking to recommend this to students when it releases in September!
-TK
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