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The book is well written and extremely interesting It is a story of the boyfriend of an IHOP owner, and one of the waitresses, hiring hit men to kill the owner. Reason, the boyfriend, who lives off the owner, wants to be with another man. He asks one of the waitresses at the IHOP if she knew someone who would do a hit. She does and the boyfriend and waitress cook up the murder. When the mother of the murdered man begins to ask for her son, the duo get the hit men to go kill her too. Of course they get caught. It is a totally fascinating story, and also well read by the Master narrator, Kevin Pierce. I listened in one sitting.

Now my big complaint. The author seems to be very sympathetic to the female killer and seems to excuse her for the murders. First is, “my daddy said something mean to me one time”, then “my Mama and my Grandmama did not want me”, and then “it was the alcohol that I drank non stop every day that caused it”. She claims that she did not really think there was going to be a murder of the IHOP owner even though she personally contacted the killers and paid them the money to kill the guy. She claims she was surprised that there was a murder. She excuses the murder of the mother, for which she also personally contacted and paid the hit men, because the woman was very old and probably would not live much longer. She also claims she ordered the hit men to kill her without pain, as if that makes it okay.

In my opinion the woman was a cold blooded killer and felt important because she was dealing with the hit men and the boyfriend was giving her benefits at IHOP in the way of a promotion, etc. I have no pity for her. I do feel sorry for her two sons but not so much for her daughter. The book was still very interesting despite my distaste for the author trying to romanticize the woman killer.