Book Review: "The Stone Girl" By Dirk Wittenburn

Let's start here with this: "The cruelest thing you can do to a wild animal is capture it alive."


This sets not only the setting but the underlying theme or tone if you will for this entire novel.

Dark, twisted, disturbing, with a slow sizzle that burns so hot it's inflamed in every artery with a mountainside massacre that involves 4 men dead, 1 missing,& a mystery woman as the lone survivor.

"Three women scarred by a chain of misogyny and death at the hands of a secret brotherhood seek a reckoning." With rape, suicide, and other abusive and horrific actions that leave readers gasping for justice.

This is one of those thrillers that takes an extremely long time to get moving, jumping, and shaking but when it does it's like the tango dance connecting and illuminating the dance floor from end to end.

The Stone Girl begins with The Lost Boys ".. a conspiracy of men who help each other marry very wealthy women so their friends can steal from their wives."
Now, this is enough to make my blood curl but then we learn that 5 wealthy men may have killed Clare Loughton.

The reasoning behind such a fate lies in the trail of money or lack thereof and it all points to scheming, conniving, frauds.

Lost Boys are nothing more than grown men who inflict pain on women and Evie was once such woman who may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.
She's a tough and tenacious woman who wanted to even the score.

Which leads to the ultimate question: Did Evie Quimby take down and kill Callum Dolenz, Peter Shandly, Kenneth Strauss, Thomas Reynolds, and last but certainly not least of the hated organization was Winthrop Langley (aka Win)?

You see seventeen years ago Win killed someone and put his body -in of all things- a wedding dress.

It turns out that Clare -the wife of a hunter- drowned in less than 2 feet of h20 or so it's claimed as a suicide.

Now we have an out of control situation involving Langley and his retched and despicable past that falls into the hands of Evie to confront and conquer.

Oh, snap...Wait ...Breaking News!

Evie did what? To Whom?

Oh shiite-she didn't .....there may be more to this story than meets the eye and a possible confession may be lurking in the shadows of justice being served up.
"Merry Christmas, you filthy animal..."

Man that was one hot mess and I loved it!

Thank you to Dirk, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.