Saturday, March 10, 2018

Killing Red



Killing Red is the debut novel for Henry Perez and is the first Alex Cappa thriller novel. Alex Chappa, a columnist for the second leading newspaper in the Chicago area has been requested to come and interview serial killer Kenny Lee Grubb by Grubb himself just days before Grubb is slated for execution. Over sixteen years prior to that, Grubb kidnapped and killed nine children and attempted to do the same to a tenth. The tenth, a ten year old girl at the time didn’t die, but managed to escape from Grubb and lead the police to him. Chappa, a new and fledgling reporter working nights at the time managed to be the only reporter at the scene of the capture due to a tip telephoned in to the small newspaper he was working for at the time. That story set off his career. Grubb now wants Chappa to write the his true story and told him that a disciple of his has been killing children across the United States and will be killing the one that escaped just before he is executed. Chappa sets off to find this girl, who Grubb refers to as Red, to warn her and also informs his old college roommate who is now an agent with the FBI in their Chicago office. Will Alex will be able to find her in time?

The author take the readers through many Chicago suburbs in this book and even further west some into some open farmland, as well as into areas within the city of Chicago itself. He keeps the action up in order to keep the book interesting and he has the type of people interviewed by Chappa varied. It is a good book.

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World of Sleuths Rating: ****
(Four out of five stars)


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