This Book Will Bury Me will exhaustingly haunt you making you crave more! The story, told by a young college girl who has suddenly lost her father will pull at your heartstrings as she tries to come to grips with the sudden loss but by also her sudden obsession with true crime. By doing this, she doesn’t have to think about her father as she falls into the rabbit hole of true crime murders and her father’s untimely death. What she does discover as she delves into these horrific murders is to her shock and surprise in the end, they somehow will help her heal and process loss. This is Jane Sharp’s own story.
Jane Sharp receives a call from her mother while she’s at college living her life happily with her friends and going to classes. Her father, her best friend she suddenly learns has died unexpectedly. As she goes home to bury him still unable to process the death, still unable to even come to grips with what all this means becomes lost in her thoughts and fears of the future. She doesn’t understand, she still feels him with her.
Depressed, angry and confused one night Jane is looking through internet threads and notices a group of true crime chatters talking about a mystery surrounding the murder of woman which has been unsolved in her area. She discovers the true crime site where sleuths exchange information and tips. She begins to do a deeper dive into the story and not only becomes obsessed with the case but with a group of other sleuth-hounds who begin to bond actually break the case wide open.
Still mourning her father’s death Jane decides against her mother’s wishes that she doesn’t want to go back to college and gets a job working at a coffee shop. She needs to figure out for herself how and why her father allowed himself to get to the point where he died.
When a second case comes to the group in which three college girls in Delphine, Idaho are murdered, her true crime partners and herself decide they are going to not only go visit the scenes of the crime but solve this murder themselves. Ah, be careful what you wish for!
As they move deeper into the case with no clear suspects, no clear evidence at the scene and a police chief unwilling to take their help, the group decides to gather their own information, some of which becomes terribly explosive and causes unnecessary harm to some people.
But something about this case does not feel right to Jane and although she can’t put her finger on why, she seems to believe there is more to this case than they are seeing. As they proceed and get closer to some answers they can hardly believe, and when they finally figure out the shocking reality of the case Jane discovers a book is being written and that is when she finally decides she must speak her truth and tell exactly what happened, and why.
This is when Jane finally discovers her much needed closure not only with this case and all it delivered to their true crime group but how it enabled her to let go of the anger for her father and to love him for himself and for just being him. This Book Will Bury Me is a fascinating, on the edge of your seat story with unimaginable surprises and an incredibly intense look at how true crime murders can be solved by amateurs. A must-read book!
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