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Review: The Butcher and the Liar - SL Woeppel

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Review: The Butcher and Liar - SL Woeppel - September 2025 Playing catch-up with my reviews as usual! This was my final read for October, which turned out to be a surprisingly quiet month with only 14 books crossing my path. But what a book to end on. The Butcher and the Liar grabbed me from the first page because I'm absolutely fascinated by stories exploring how families cope when they discover a parent or loved one is a killer. That moment when everything you thought you knew shatters. Then fast-forward to the present day, where those children are grown and desperately trying to build new lives, only to have their carefully constructed identities exposed to the world. It's the kind of premise that keeps me turning pages late into the night. When Daisy was just a young girl, her father a butcher by trade graduated from slaughtering animals to murdering women. He struck me as a bit of a Dexter-type killer, methodical and clean in his horrifying work. Now, decades later at t...