The Butcher's Boy
By Michael Robb Mathias
A 2011 Reader's Favorite Award Winner for Horror Fiction
The Butcher's Boy
A Paranormal/Murder-Mystery/Chiller
by Michael Robb
Thirty-one years ago, Buxly the Butcher went to trial for killing his entire family. Now Janet, a newly divorced nurse, has unknowingly purchased the place where it all took place.
What happens when her eleven year old son and their overprotective Rottweiler learn that the place is haunted by the victims of that grizzly act? Can young Michael fight through the madness and terror to figure out what really happened so long ago? If he does, maybe the tormented souls can be put to rest. If he fails, he just might become one of them. With only the help of his babysitter, a burned out house painter, and his dog, Lucy Fur, Michael is about to try. The problem is, not everyone is who they seem, even the dead.
***Content Warning: This is NOT the over-gory sort of thrasher-horror novel, but it does touch on some unsettling subject matter and should not be read by the squeamish, the easily offended, or children under the age of 18.
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MY HONEST REVIEW OF The Butcher's Boy
When Janet’s
nasty divorce left her broke, she was overjoyed to find a house and job in
another town. So happy, in fact, that she didn’t question why the house was so
cheap. When her son Michael tells her that the house they moved into was the
site of a brutal mass killing, and that he has seen ghosts of the victims, she
is skeptic. But when a serial killer targets close to home, she discovers
there’s more danger than mere ghosts. And with no funds to move, there is
nothing she can do about it.
This plot read
like a lifetime movie, i.e. single mother, young son, haunted house, and of
course a serial killer on the loose. I liked how I got to know all of the
characters, and not just the main ones. That’s what made it real to me. This
story had plenty of twists to keep you guessing. Each time I was sure of the
killer, something would change that. I like that type of read, it’s what keeps
it interesting.
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opinions are 100% my own, whether I purchased the book or it was given to me to
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