Fact or Fiction, Gregg Olsen Rocks!
Review by Kim Cantrell
There’s a killer prowling the small cities and towns around Puget Sound.
He’s a sick and twisted serial killer with no rhyme or reason to his choice of victims, and the brutality he inflicts is unspeakable.
Enter Kendall Stark, a detective with the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Department.
Dubbed the Kitsap Cutter by the local media, the killer has made it clear he won’t quit until he’s forced to stop. But how many women will die before he’s caught?
Kendall must overcome a egotistical partner, an over-ambitious journalist, and her own personal challenges as she follows the twist and turns that lead to the capture of a serial killer.
I’ve always loved Gregg Olsen‘s true crime books, but I have to admit Victim Six is the first time I have ventured into his fiction.
While the main character, Kendall Stark, has a back story as a mother to an autistic child, that part of the book doesn’t really seem to ever fully develop. The purpose may have been simply to personalize the character, but failed miserably; although it is not distracting to the plot.
Yet the rest of the story is an exciting, 406 pages of can’t-put-it-down reading. And I particularly loved how Olsen weaved actual true crime into his fiction novel; not to mention his extremely vivid descriptions of places in rural Washington that can only be told from a resident native’s point of view.
If you’re looking for a break in true crime, but can’t walk away cold turkey, I highly recommend reading Victim Six.
