On a cold February morning in 1967, Sheriff Coleman Grundy finds Betty Lou Mundy dead in her front yard and her husband on the porch with the gun that killed her. It looks like a classic case of revenge on a cheating wife.Until the next murder. And the next. As Cole desperately searches for leads, he’s forced to come to grips with his own wife’s unsolved murder three years earlier, and in the … process, he unearths long-buried secrets that change his life forever.
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Absolutely great book! I couldn’t put it down. Definitely recommend it to anyone who likes action packed mysteries.
Interesting and psychologically intriguing.
Many different threads in the story seem unrelated until the end when they are all tied together. It started slowly and kept building . Kept my interest.
The characters are well developed and the story is complicated and keeps you wanting to know what’s happening next.
Enjoyable use of the English language. Well written.
I couldn’t put this book down. A lot of twists and surprises. Good character building and great descriptive passages without getting bogged down.
My husband and I both read the book and loved it!
I thought this book was very good but at times there’s just a little to much description of things. Overall a great read.
This was a very good mystery/cop read. The characters were realistic and the plot twisted only when it was called for and easy to believe. You could tell this book was professionally edited and was a first-rate publication.
The plot had several twists and had interesting characters. The way the author writes is enjoyable and makes reading easy. Quite a few mysteries lately have a lot of fluff and I end up skimming through chapters to get to the meat of the story. This book didn’t have that issue.
Very much enjoyed this book. Great character development. Very good read.
For some reason this book kept reminding me of the TV series Longmire. The setting is Virginia, not Wyoming, so It was probably the sheriff that kept bringing that to mind. Regardless, I enjoyed the book and the plot and give it high marks for being a good mystery. Even when you think you figured it out, you probably haven’t.
I loved this book. There were lots of twists and turns and I didn’t want to put it down!
Enjoyed following sheriff into all the twists. Didn’t guess outcome
Really a good book, trying to figure out who the bad people were
Another great read by Ken Oder. I did discover one thing: The Whippoorwill series does not need to be read in order. I mistakenly read #3 after #1. I am thoroughly enjoying Mr. Oder’s writing style and the time of America this series is set in.
I was gifted this book with the understanding that I would leave an honest review.
This is the first book well only book in this series that I have read. That said maybe if I had read book 1 and 2 I would not have felt so lost. So many characters in current and past I was having a hard time keeping up. I also could not get a grasp of the main characters and therefor couldn’t relate to them. Joe Geoffrey is the narrator for this audiobook and he does a good job. Again this is my opinion and you should give the book a try.
This review is for the audio book.
This is the first book by this author that I have listened to but I really enjoyed it and will be giving the rest of his books a go. It is a little misleading as it is in the Morden detective category but the book is set in 1967, you wouldn’t actually know this if they didn’t keep giving you the date at the beginning of each chapter, well maybe you would miss the use of mobile phones. What I am trying to say is even though it was set in the past the story wasn’t slow or long winded, infact the body count kept rising like you would expect with a modern day mystery and a very cleverly woven plot, that I didn’t see coming.
Sheriff Coleman thinks he has a very open and shut case when he is called out to find the body of Betty Lou. Everything points to her husband as the killer, especially when he turns a gun on himself. However evidence keeps turning up that convinces the Sheriff that more is going on than he first thought and as he looks deeper into the murder more bodies start turning up some not even thought to be murders and with someone taking shots at his deputies he and his team have no choice but to take a closer look even if it means digging up old secrets of betrayal, lies and hurt.
The narrator had a very deep voice that wasn’t very good for doing female voices as I couldn’t tell them apart but by the end of the story I had got use it.
I liked this book because it kept you guessing what was happening next. Full of twist and turns, kept you on your toes. The sheriff was so realistic.
The Judas Murders captures the poignancy of humanity brilliantly. The main character, Sherriff Cole, sympathetically endures infirmity and loss, which brings a quality of authenticity to his struggle to overcome the past and survive the rage it has wrought. The story opens with him examining the aftermath of an unexplained murder. Cole finds himself in a battle to prevent the horrific fallout which threatens to follow. The action, the grief, the mystery gripped me from the very beginning. I was compelled to follow Cole as he worked to unravel the intricate web of deceptions and betrayals. The closer Cole gets to discovering the perpetrator of the murders, the closer we get to why they are committed. Along the way, we are introduced to multiple engaging characters who are compelling in their own right. The language of the rural south is captured beautifully, and wry humor adds balance to the pain and suffering. The Judas Murders embodies the best of what thrillers have to offer, and if you are a fan of the genre, this is a must-read.