Today’s Nonfiction post is on Bitter Blood: A True Story of
Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder by Jerry Bledsoe. It is 423
pages long and is published by Diversion Books. The cover has a picture of a
wedding day. The intended reader is someone who is interested in true crime. There
is foul language, talk of sex, and violence in this book. There Be Spoilers
Ahead.
From the dust jacket- The terrifying #1 New York Times
bestseller about the unbreakable ties of blood The first bodies found were
those of a feisty millionaire widow and her daughter in their posh Louisville,
Kentucky, home. Months later, another wealthy widow and her prominent son and
daughter-in-law were found savagely slain in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Mystified police first suspected a professional in the bizarre gangland-style
killings that shattered the quiet tranquility of two well-to-do southern
communities. But soon a suspicion grew that turned their focus to family. The
Sharps. The Newsoms. The Lynches. The only link between the three families was
a beautiful and aristocratic young mother named Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch. Could
this former child "princess" and fraternity sweetheart have committed
such barbarous crimes? And what about her gun-loving first cousin and lover,
Fritz Klenner, son of a nationally renowned doctor? In this powerful and
riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder … of obsessive
love and bitter custody battles, Jerry Bledsoe recounts the shocking events
that ultimately took nine lives, building to a truly horrifying climax that
will leave you stunned.
Review- This is a shocking true crime story. We get
everything in this book; forbidden love, jealously, mental illness, and a lot
of innocent people killed. We start at the first murder with little clues and
no reasons for the murder. It is a brutal killing and the family is in shock.
The police with no leads are doing their best but nothing is working. Then the
second set of murders happen. The story moves strangely from the time of the murders
to back into the far past the families, showing how events led to the murders
and the ending conclusion. The end is truly shocking. I was very disturbed by
how the story ended. It is not a satisfying conclusion with no fault to the
author. Bledsoe just tells the story, he gives the reader the information, no
matter how bad it is. The writing is good, Bledsoe gives just enough information
without being too graphic, and he keeps the twists and turns coming.
I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for
my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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