This Book Will Bury Me- Book Review

Quick review:- This was loosely based on a true story but the story overall wasn’t great.

Rating:-3 stars.

True Crime Fanatic

It’s the most famous crime in modern history. But only she knows the true story.

After the unexpected death of her father, college student Jane Sharp longs for a distraction from her grief. She becomes obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives who teach her how to hunt killers from afar. In this morbid internet underground, Jane finds friendship, purpose, and even glory…

So when news of the shocking deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho takes the world by storm, and sleuths everywhere race to solve the crimes, Jane and her friends are determined to beat them. But the case turns out to be stranger than anyone expected. Details don’t add up, the police are cagey, and there seems to be more media hype and internet theorizing than actual evidence. When Jane and her sleuths take a step closer, they find that every answer only begs more questions. Something’s not adding up, and they begin to suspect their killer may be smarter and more prolific than any they’ve faced before. Placing themselves in the center of the story starts to feel more and more like walking into a trap…

Told one year after the astounding events that concluded the case and left the world reeling, when Jane has finally decided to break her silence about what really happened, she tells the true story of the Delphine Massacres. And what she has to confess will shock even the most seasoned true crime fans…

When Jane’s father dies suddenly, Jane feels as if her life suddenly went down the drain. She drops out of college and soon becomes obsessed with true crime, even joining the true crime forum. Using the name Searcher, she becomes a part of a true crime group that solves the crimes through the internet. The group feels like family to Jane. When the Delphine massacre occurred that shocked the entire nation, Jane and the true crime group starts discussing the case. The case was brutal, but the police were cagey, the witnesses’ statements weren’t clear. Jane and her gang decided to meet each other in Idaho so they will be able to solve the Delphine crime.

This wasn’t as great as Ashley Winstead’s other books in my opinion. I enjoyed her debut novel In My Dreams I hold a Knife and The Last Housewife but her recent two novels didn’t really work for me well. The story started out slow and was partly boring but it got interesting towards the middle. The Delphine Massacre is similar to real life University of Idaho murders that took place in 2022, where four students were brutally murdered in an off-campus house.

I found that there are good and bad parts in the book–the good parts might be, getting together and working like family, some twists and turns in the book and lack of romance (not really a fan if romance overrules the thriller aspect of the book). But the book is too long–I have to skim through the pages, very predictable. And then ending to me was hopeless and unrealistic—feels like the author rushed the ending or the part that it was one of the most unrealistic ending I have read.

Ashley Winstead can really write good thrillers–as I mentioned her first two books were great making me want to read all her books. I feel like this was a waste of her talent in story telling–she could have definitely crafted a beautiful crime thriller with true crime as the background, instead of using a true crime story which apparently is still working its way through the legal system.

Will read her books in future? Probably and I really hope her next release will be better than this.

Overall, this is three stars.

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