Evil In The Mirror
A murder mystery from Author Mitt Winstead
: A note to readers: Be advised this is a
murder/mystery; there are strong elements of death, torture and carnage. If
this is not your scene, do move on. But if like me you have a love for horror,
then I would most certainly say this is right up your alley "with a side of Fava
beans and a nice Chianti.”
This is the conversation that brings us to today’s Preview
Review...
Author Eri Nelson posted a link to The 131 Preview Review Via
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Mitt Winstead: I'm scared
S.I. Hayes: Don’t be afraid, I am quite gentle so long as you
ask nice.
Mitt Winstead: You read 131 page of “Evil in the Mirror” and you
will be the
one scared!
S.I. Hayes: Challenge Accepted! If you would like me to read it,
you can
send me a copy as an attachment here through my messages, or e-mail
at
shannonihayes@hotmail.com
Mitt Winstead: Facebook will do... and thanks! Mittster
So here, we are, just a few days later, and I have
finished the first 131 pages. So what
did I think? I think I'm going to finish reading the novel later, that’s what I
think. It is not the usual fanfare; it’s not a who-done-it, piece. You get that
from the first bloody mess of bodies.
The story is jammed pack with images of
Arizona in the Vietnam Era, when our boys were going off to war, and the Hippie
Cult- *ahem* ure was at it’s peak. Sex, drugs,
and rock and roll were all the rage, and in the midst of things like “free
love” and Nuclear Armament, beneath the lights and opulent desert skies a
string of brutal murders begins to unfold.
Enter Detective Jon Mull and his partner Detective Matt
Wilson. Jon spends his time looking up from the bottom of a bottle of Jack
Daniels, while Matt looks out for him. The pair finds themselves dropped into a
gruesome dance that they can not bow out of. Amongst the deadly dealings the
story unfolds through flash backs and forwards, from Jon’s life before the
bottle and the decidedly maniacal, meticulous, and murderous, twins Curtis and
Clarence. (My 3 favorite M’s) *Grin*
We find that the Identical Villains have left death and
devastation from California to Arizona, since before the pair hit puberty. Thanks
to the nurturing of a short-lived abusive father, a often neglectful drunken mother,
and later, a just as drunken step-father. They are the model of the darkness
that surrounds the far reaches of the most dastardly of deeds, and they revel
in the chaos and screams their “Twin time” invokes.
Detective Jon, was once a happy man, married to a woman
who longed to be his for the remainder of their lives. But the world has a way
of twisting happiness into sorrow and when disease took Angie from him, he
found that the bottle was his only solace.
The backward and forward flashes through the
character’s lives transitions seamlessly, which I find refreshing, and I love
linguistic flair. Which this book is packed full of, like fun similes such as
these two gems:
"his eyes looked like two fried eggs in a bucket
of piss"
and
"It was so quiet you could hear a pack rat
fart."
Remarks like this helped to lift some of the darkness
from the tale, allowing me to have a laugh, even if it was at the Hero’s
expense.
Jon is convinced that the murders are all connected that his partners
abandoned vehicle on a lone stretch of highway means that is he is not missing,
but in fact very much dead.
While the entire state looks for Matt, Jon is tasked
with breaking in a new partner and hell-bent on getting “these maniacs off the
streets.”
Thrilling,
gruesome, and at times rather heart wrenching, “Evil In The Mirror” has proven
that there are still intelligent stories being told that can hit the target,
and transport you to a time when the world was far more interesting.
I urge you, nay, I Challenge You, to pick up “Evil In
The Mirror,” and tell me you aren't clenching your teeth, to keep from biting
your nails!
Until we meet again, I thank you my readers of the Wee
Hours, for joining me, here at The 131 Preview Review, and do come check out
the Interview with the Author, Mitt Winstead. I have some great questions that
I am sure you are dying
to get answers to!
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find Mitt and his work!
Cheers!
Happy Reading and Writing!
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