[bksvol-discuss] Submitted, Nonfiction, True Crime
- From: Marilyn Beasley <mmbeagle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:36:33 -0400
THE WOODCHIPPER MURDER by Arthur Herzog, 265 pages
In the style of a brilliant detective novel, Arthur Herzog skillfully
re-creates the hour-by-hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly
true-crime narrative. Long Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed
Helle Crafts's disappearance as a routine missing-person case, Keith Mayo, a
private investigator, knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn't skipped town
nine days before Thanksgiving. He had been concerned for Helle's safety a month
earlier when he had provided his client, an attractive thirty-nine-year-old Pan
Am flight attendant, conclusive evidence of her husband's extramarital
activities. An Eastern Airlines pilot and part-time policeman, Richard stood by
his story that Helle had flown abroad on November 19 to visit her suddenly
stricken mother. Richard was caught up in a succession of lies. A friend
telephoned Denmark to learn that Helle's mother was healthy and unaware of
Helle's whereabouts. More disturbing was the news, reported by the Craftses'
baby-sitter, that a dark stain "the size of a grapefruit" had been noticed on
the master bedroom rug soon after Helle's disappearance; now rug was gone. Mayo
seized upon a single clue, and when it led to a remote landfill from which he
unearthed a stained rug, he had the evidence necessary to bring the state
police into the case.
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book.
Marilyn
mmbeagle@xxxxxxxxx
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