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ARC for review. To be published August 20, 2024.

Oh, yes. Thank you. I’ve been waiting to get my hot little hands on this one, I’m a big fan of well done true crime and this the the post-trial story of that ENORMOUS piece of human excrement Alex Murdaugh (after reading this book I must go look for video to see how he pronounces his own name because, of course, he does that like a dick as well, apparently.). This was written by the correspondent from the “Wall Street Journal�� who covered the case. Here we go!

There’s a saying in the South (maybe everywhere, but I come from the South) that there are some people who just need killin��. And I’m against capital punishment and all, but some people��.some people are just mad dogs. They can’t be redeemed. There’s something too, too wrong with them that can’t be made right (they are less likely to be on death row and more likely to be in a corporate boardroom somewhere, but I digress.).

Alex Murdaugh is one of those people. But, honestly? I believe Paul was too. And probably Alex’s grandfather, Buster Murdaugh. Jury’s still out on Alex’s son, Buster, but Paul definitely killed one person and likely killed two. Unless Buster, Jr. killed the other one. And regardless of which of them struck the killing blow the might have been in on in together. This is the Murdaugh family, the pride of the Low Country.

But you can’t blame the residents of the Murdaugh domain for being wary of crossing them. I don’t know that I would have done it. The Murdaughs and the law firm Alex was a member of controlled everything over a five county area. Everything. And when you control that, everyone in the state will listen to what you have to say.

Honestly, convicting Alex of murder was probably never a sure thing, and likely only happened because the jury saw a chance to be free of the Murdaugh curse and because Alex Murdaugh had stolen all the money from his firm such that his partners were forced to renounce him and all that evidence came in. Had the trial been limited to the murders and only the murders Alex would likely be a free man today.

The book is well done, following the Murdaugh family line from great-grandfather down. The author was with the jury when they visited the family home, Moselle, during the trial, and that is interesting. I would be so interested to read a current interview with Alex now.

Very well done. If you are interested, this is the book to read.