Review: Before She Dies - Book #0.5 Slaughter Creek Series - Rita Herron - October 2012 Looking for a quick thrilling read? One of my main goals for 2021 was to go through my e-books and clear old ones off the devices and during this time, I have found some good gems. Before She Dies is a prequel to the Slaughter Creek Series by Rita Herron, whom writes some great mysteries which I have enjoyed. The main series of Slaughter Creek is set 25 years later when the twins are 25 years old. In Before She Dies, we meet the twin’s parents as they move to a small town hoping for a peaceful life but when the wife delivers her twins, some strange things start happening as one twin is perfect but the other screams bloody murder. The mum is worried so she visits the doctor and soon notices around the clinic - a few kids with similar symptoms to her daughter. Stealing a look at her daughter's file, she is in for a shock as it seems someone is experimenting on the children of the town. Just as she...

Review: All the Dead Girls - Book #3 Graveyard Falls Series - Rita Herron - November 2016 After reading all the bullymances lately, I find myself getting stuck in a rut so I like to read my mystery novels to pump up my excitement levels back up that way I can be excited about reading. All the Dead Girls start years back when two foster girls decided in order to protect themselves that they would run away from home. As they were traveling along the road, they were picked up by a truck. The girls trusted the people in the truck, however life wasn't going to be favorable to them. That night only one of them left alive and the other killed. Now eighteen years later, a storm has hit Graveyard Falls and uncovered a mass gravesite with bones. One set of those bones matched Sunny - the foster girl who never came home.  Enter in Agent Beth Fields with the FBI, she has been called in to help with the case as she was the one who escaped. As the victims are identified and the...

Review: Pretty Little Killers - Book #1 The Keepers Series - Rita Herron - February 2018 Korrine Davenport is back in the Savannah team of FBI agents and has been paired up with Agent Hatcher. The two of them have baggage as the night that Hatcher's wife Felicia was murdered, he was having a one night stand with Korrine.  Korrine has been dodging her hometown as it brings back nasty memories of the night her father was killed while they danced together when she was five years old.  In Pretty Little Killers, we see a group of criminals who have been let off or mistrials being murdered. Does the FBI team have a vigilante killer on the loose? This leads the agents to Tinsley's cottage where she has been an agoraphobic since she almost died at the hands of a serial killer called The Skull. The Skull's partner was the one who killed Hatcher's wife. Tinsley's therapist advised her to start up a blog as a cathartic journey called Heart and Soul where she c...