It’s not long before things start to go wrong. Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home. But now his mother, old and suffering from dementia, has taken a turn for the worse. Paul has slowly put his life back together. Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree–and his victim–were Paul’s friends. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it’s attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet–and inspired more than one copycat. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. A dark imagination, a sinister smile–always on the outside of the group.

You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. In the meantime, here are a few mini reviews that I’ve been procrastinating on! There are so many incredible-sounding books coming out in the next couple of months, and I do not want to miss them. But one I’m determined to crack this month. I feel like, at this point, if I were stuck in a 10 ft x 10 ft room with nothing but the clothes on my back, some water, and a Kindle on my lap, I would still manage to find an excuse to NOT read. And in this case the squirrel is a text message or a cute YouTube video or a dark blotch on my ceiling that I swear is a spider. It’s just that I open a book, read the first couple of chapters, and then think, “Oh look, squirrel!” and proceed to chase the squirrel instead. It’s not that I don’t have a good selection of books to read, or that I’m not excited to get to them – because I have and I do. It’s not that I don’t have the time – quite the opposite, really. Which, turns out, is a bit of an inconvenience when you’re trying to run a book blog. If anyone has suggestions, please feel free to mail out a note to my brain detailing step-by-step instructions, as the poor thing has clearly forgotten.

Red Heir by Lisa Henry