The Murder Farm
by
Andrea Maria Schenkel
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USA
Can
Mobius, 2014 (2014)
Hardcover, e-Book
Reviewed by Mary Ann Smyth
B
avaria. 1922. On a remote farm, a whole family is brutally murdered with a pickaxe! It's dubbed the
Murder Farm
, and newspapers are ablaze with the story of a whole family found slaughtered. Yet no suspect stands out. The police have no strong leads and so have no idea how to find the vicious killer.
A
previous resident of the small village returns home to collect evidence and to try to solve the case that has haunted the whole area for years.
The Murder Farm
is written as though we are listening to one person's recollections as we read a third-person narrative. This book is based on the true story of the unsolved murder.
T
his is Andrea Marie Schenkel's take on what happened at the
Murder Farm
. It was an award-winning debut as well as an internationally bestselling book. The story is hard to read and the denouement is even harder. It has been compared to Truman Capote's
In Cold Blood
. But
The Murder Farm
stands on its own.
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