The Red Scream

Molly Crates has just published her first true crime book, based on the serial killings of death row inmate Louie Bronk.  Louie has used up all of his court appeals, and is due to be executed by lethal injection in just a few days.  Molly is going to be there to witness it, and she wants to write about the execution too.  She’s not sure that’s going to happen though, because with the execution approaching all of a sudden Molly’s being strongly discouraged of doing so.  By both her boss, and Charlie McFarland, whose first wife, Tiny, was Louie’s most famous victim, and not to mention his only capitol offense.  Those aren’t the only strange things happening though; Molly comes upon some dark clues that could mean that Louie never killed Tiny at all.  So when Louie recants his confession to Tiny’s murder, Molly has to wonder whether or not he’s really Tiny’s killer.  Molly decides that she has to know the truth though, even if it means getting her book discredited.  Her investigation is almost useless though, because everywhere Molly goes she turns up a day too late.

The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker is wonderfully written book that is very hard to put down.  I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to read a good mystery novel.