Review: The Book of Cold Cases - Simone St. James

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Review: The Book of Cold Cases - Simone St. James - March 2022

One of the authors that I decided for 2024 to read her books backlist is Simone St. James and I am slowly getting through them. This is the fourth one I have read and out of the four, there has only been one DNF. One of the themes that I have seen as a recurrence in all of Simone St. James's books is that she loves to have the ghosts of those who died violently still hanging around and haunting those in the present times. This book starts with four murders - we have Julian Greer, Marianne Greer, and then two men on the side of the road. The year was 1977 and the murders shocked the small town of Claire Lake and the prime suspect was Beth Greer. A witness placed her at the scene of the second crime and her car as well as ballistics matched the gun that killed her father. Beth thought was innocent but was sent to jail and labeled The LadyKiller. Now 40 years later, we meet Shea Collins aka Girl A. She has her crime demons and she also writes a crime blog called The Book of Cold Cases in her spare time. Her day job is working as a receptionist at a doctor's clinic. Imagine her surprise when one day Beth Greer walks in. Shea is shocked and follows her afterward, hoping to chat. Beth offers Shea the chance to interview her as Beth has hidden the "real killer" for forty years and now that she's dying, who better to tell her story to than Shea Collins? Who killed the men and framed Beth? Was it someone she knew or a stranger? Is that person still alive today? Like Simone's previous titles I have read, this book jumps between a past and a present timeline. Reading this book also inspired me yesterday to write an article about another cold unsolved case that took place in 1945 aka The Missing Sodder Children for an online magazine that I write a true crime column for called Gothic Bite Magazine. Overall, if you love past/present timeline novels, ghosts, and suspense, then check out The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St James.

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