Reviews

The Bone Worms by Keith Minnion

pbanditp's review

Go to review page

4.0

“I see an entire body here,” she said, “but it’s been, what, taken apart? All the meat, all the skin, all the guts, all the bones…” She looked up. “I don’t fucking get it.” “This flesh belongs to the bones upstairs,” Fran said.
Fran is a Detective Sargent in homicide and he is just back from leave for a confrontation that almost ended his life. His first day back finds him and his partner Bill, working on case where the victim was severely mutilated in a very specific way.
Fran discovers that this same thing happened decades before.
I am not one for police procedure type horror but this was intriguing. Fran is a great vulnerable character who has to act the part of a police detective while still dealing with his recent breakdown as well as moving back in with his mom.
There were several parts that really made me squirm and it was fun trying to figure out what was happening to these people and why.
I don’t think I have ever added “oh dear God” to my notes before, yet, with this book I did it several times.
This book is being rereleased this month by Cemetery Dance.
More...