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Title: Not his best work
Review: I picked up this book because I had read "The Names of the Dead" and found it a very affecting work about the Viet Nam war, a topic of too few good novels. This one is just not up to the same standard. Karla Faye Tucker meets Stephen King... it's like the TV movies that come out within a week of some sensational tabloid crime. I was not lead to care very much about Marjorie, or anyone else in this book. Nor was I lead to understand her. If, as she says, she accepted Jesus into her life, I am hard put to see how. This book is a gripping page-turner, but definitely "summer reading". If you really wanted to see into the life and heart of a killer, read Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" about Gary Gilmore, and then read the devastating "Shot in the Heart" by Gary's brother Mikal.
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