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January Reading Recap

5 books

1,717 pages

Average rating 3.8

Murder at Harbor Village 🌟🌟🌟🌟

American Predator 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Bound Through the Ashes 🌟🌟🌟

A Painted House 🌟🌟🌟

1st to Die 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Off to a good start to the year! Had some really great picks and some that were just okay. I was most excited to read American Predator and I was not disappointed! 1st to Die has been on my TBR list for so long and I am so happy that I finally got around to reading it. This series has instantly become one of my favorites.

I am very thankful for Lyrical Underground, Viking Books, and Danelle Nelson for proving me with some of these good reads!

Check them out!

What was your favorite read from January?

Book Review – American Predator

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

True Crime, Nonfiction

Who is Israel Keys?

“The rarest form of murder is serial. Despite what we see on CSI or Mindhunter or the films and procedures that dominate popular culture, people who kill randomly and for no reason are extremely uncommon. It’s also why many of us think we know of every such American killer. But the subject of this book was unlike anything the FBI had ever encountered. He was a new kind of monster, likely responsible for the greatest string of unsolved disappearances and murders in modern American History. And you have probably never heard of him.”

It all came to light when a young girl was kidnapped from a coffee stand in Anchorage Alaska.

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Book 2 – Alaska

“The rarest form of murder is serial. Despite what we see on CSI or Mindhunter or the films and procedures that dominate popular culture, people who kill randomly and for no reason are extremely uncommon. It’s also why many of us think we know of every such American killer. But the subject of this book was unlike anything the FBI had ever encountered. He was a new kind of monster, likely responsible for the greatest string of unsolved disappearances and murders in modern American History. And you have probably never heard of him.”