Blue Wolf Reviews

Tag: brutal

  • Breaking Good

    Breaking Good

    Ice produces an intense rush that can make the user feel confident and energetic. It can last for hours, however coming down takes days. Simon Fenech, former Australian and South Pacific kickboxing champion was to discover that not only is Ice (crystal meth) very addictive, but it is also linked to chronic physical and mental health problems.

    As a result of a traumatic work place accident, the author found himself in excruciating pain and unable to perform his previous job. An acquaintance offered him ice, which kept the pain at bay but the resultant addiction, alienated him from his family, destroyed his finances, and left him in a constant state of agitation and at the mercy of the drug.

    Fenech’s book graphically chronicles his decline and ultimate incarceration. It leaves the reader in no doubt about the insidious effects of ice and consequential involvement in the underworld of illicit drugs, violence and society’s underbelly. A drug habit of $1000-a-day caused the author to reach the depths of despair; his journey to a better, drug free life is remarkable. He highlights the importance of family in his rehabilitation; particularly the unfailing support of his brother.

    Readers will find this memoir confronting but informative; it gives a brutally honest insight into the world of drugs and dependency. Fenech concludes with a chapter on Fruit2Work, the wonderful organisation which gave him and former offenders another chance.

  • Murder Mile

    Murder Mile

    A market trader in the town of Peckham has discovered the body of a woman lying face down in an ally. In the bitterly cold hours of a winters morning, just before the shift ends Sargent Jane Tennison and her partner Detective Constable Brian Edwards attend the OOO call. The woman is dead, blood on the back of her jacket, buttons from a shirt lying beside her.

    A rat crosses their pathway just before their arrival at what will become a crime scene, darting out of the rubbish piled high on the side of the road, left to mount up due to a local council workers strike.

    A car with a flat tyre is near the scene of the crime, one that is checked out but not thoroughly as Tennison and her team look for leads into what is fast becoming a very difficult case.  Sybil Hastings, body has been found in the boot of the car, another body without explanation; she has been stabbed multiple times, her son Andrew knows police officers in higher places and demands the killer be found immediately.

    A man walking his dog on Peckham Rye finds a human forearm in the piles of putrefying rubbish still lying in the streets as the rubbish strike rolls on. While the officers are searching the area a fox crosses Edwards path, carrying what turns out to be a human hand, minus some of the fingers: It would seem Peckham was fast becoming the dumping ground for bodies; people who had been killed somewhere else and then dumped in the ‘Golden’ Mile or what was to become known as Murder Mile.

    Do they have a serial killer in the area, or is this the work of several people. The Press go mad, the bureaucracy within the Police Force are demanding answers, Now!  The terrain the team have to cover to try and catch a killer becomes complex, the options confusing, but when they believe they have identified the killer, obtained a confession and are about to close the case, something so confounding occurs that it makes Tennison and Edwards doubt their own sanity.

    This latest thriller from Linda La Plante has her trademark style that of murder most foul, honed to a fine, dark art, drawing the reader in to confront once again, the horror that is humanity at its worst, stamped all over the pages

     A fabulous read once again from the Queen of Murder Mystery that makes you want to leave the lights on at night!