I would like to share The Axe by Linda Griffin with you which I received a PDF copy from Voracious Readers in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small parentage from the items you purchase.
The Axe can be described as a thriller or suspenseful novel/ murder mystery. The story did seem rushed at times and I believe the author could have added more to the story. Bringing us into there earlier lives we know there keeping things secretive from each other. The entire book is about a woman her fiancé and the aftermath of an accusation of double axe murder.
While visiting his families California cabin DC and Eric find two men chopping firewood and when they approach to ask them why they are chopping firewood on his property Eric and DC get attacked. Eric wakes up he is in the trunk of his own car and here’s DC calling his name. DC is mostly naked and bloody with a broken arm and collarbone,
You will find out this is short read about a DC as I said above who was is raped at a young age and DC tries to report the rape but like a lot of times but nothing comes of it. What was surprising is a couple of days later DC is accused of the axe murder. Which to me made no, sense since we know she had been raped..
DC and Eric have an emotional road ahead as Eric tries to be there for her while she gets interrogated about the murders. Desi is kind of falling apart. Will the cops find out if Desi really did it or was it someone else? Will Desi and Eric’s relationship survive this ordeal. To find out you will need to read The Axe.
About the Book:
Sweethearts Eric Leidheldt and Desiree Chauveau are spending a weekend at his Uncle’s cabin when they encounter two strangers cutting wood. Eric is knocked unconscious, and Desi is viciously attacked. The following day two police offices come to their apartment to arrest Desi. Her assailants are dead, murdered with an axe, and her fingerprints are on it. She confesses- but is she really guilty? Eric is determined to stand by her, but the physical and emotional effects of the attack severely change her.
Meet the Author Linda Griffin (Author)
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I was born and raised in San Diego, California and earned a BA in English from San Diego State University and an MLS from UCLA. I began my career as a reference and collection development librarian in the Art and Music Section of the San Diego Public Library and then transferred to the Literature and Languages Section, where I had the pleasure of managing the Central Library’s Fiction collection and initiating fiction order lists for the entire library system. Although I also enjoy reading biography, memoir, and history, fiction remains my first love. In addition to the three R’s—reading, writing, and research—I enjoy Scrabble, movies, and travel.
My earliest ambition was to be a “book maker” and I wrote my first story, “Judy and the Fairies,” with a plot stolen from a comic book, at the age of six. I broke into print in college with a story in the San Diego State University literary journal, The Phoenix, but most of my magazine publications came after I left the library to spend more time on my writing.
My stories have been published in numerous journals, including Eclectica, Thema Literary Journal, Avalon Literary Review, The Nassau Review, and Orbis, and in the anthologies Short Story America, Vol. 2, The Captive and the Dead, and Australia Burns.
Member of RWA, Authors Guild, and Sisters in Crime
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