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Title: Shop of Horrors by Bill G. Cox ISBN: 0-7860-0500-9 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: The Little Book of Horrors
Comment: I had a very good friend who was shot to death during a domestic disbute. I know what my own range of emotions were then and so I have great empathy for the friends and family of Deborah McCormick as they have tried to deal with her violent and tragic death.
However, I also have known Michael Griffith. Michael was a deputy at the Bay County Sheriff's office when I worked for another law enforcement agency in Panama City . We continued to be friends after I moved to Tallahassee. I knew the woman he was married to when he lived in Panama City. I was present the day her next husband was arrested for having a 3 year long sexual relationship with Michael's 13 year old daughter.Mom was called in for an interview and admitted that she knew about the relationship and had given her consent.
So forgive me if I don't see her cast as the much abused and mistreated ex-wife. We are not talking June Cleaver here.
I was working the night Michael was named Law Enforcement Officer of the Year. His watch commander called and said one of the local business groups was going to give out the award at their banquet that night and for Michael to go pick it up because no one else wanted to go. That certainly doesn't sell books, does it?
I can assure you that, when a hurricane came through Bay County, we had our hands full just taking care of our county; and that was using every city, county and state law enforcement officer available in our area. There is no way anyone would take a 2 man patrol car and send it 100 miles away to Pensacola to check on a citizen when there are four counties full of law enforcement officers between our county and the misplaced citizen. The inaccuracies go on and on.
I doubt very seriously that any part of this manuscript came from interviews the author held with anyone in Bay County whoever knew Michael. Alot of those people have read the book, and alot of them refuse to believe that he has always been the malicious person this book portrays him to be.
To me, the book reads like a cut and paste job from newspaper stories and trial transcripts.
To portray Michael Griffith as a bad seed from birth may sell a few books. But it NOT an accurate representation of who he was.
Although I don't know who he became after he left Panama City, I know that during the 8 years I knew him he was a good deputy, a good friend and a nice guy. I've known a lot of people who have developed much more agressive personalities after years in law enforcement. I know that in every agency I have been affiliated with we have had our share of loose cannons, addicts, wife beaters and child molesters: we knew who most of them were, but nobody wanted to deal with it at the departmental level.
Those officers usually stay employed until they decided to leave; or they get fired because they go so far off the deep end they can't be concealed from the public any more. At which time their department takes away their gun and their badge and turns them loose on an unsuspecting public...with no safety net for the officer or the public.
If we can't qualify "Little Shop of Horrors" as complete fiction.....please lets not try to qualify it as investigative journalism, either.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good book! Well researched.
Comment: I disagree with the other reviewer, who I don't think was fair to this book or its author. While it's not the best I've ever read, it was good and certainly worth the price. I felt I got to know the main characters fairly well, and the trial was covered in some detail without bogging the reader down in dry legal prose. As for the other reviewer's comments about the pictures not matching the text, I have no idea what he's referring to... the pictures were of the crime scene, the victims, and the prosecutors.
Rating: 1
Summary: By far the worst I've ever read.
Comment: I have read hundreds of true crime books. I have until now, never actually considered demanding the author give me my money back! I would send him his book back if it wouldn't cost more than the book did. More than focusing on the story line I found myself "catching" all the mistakes in his grammer. The idea and the story seemed interesting but I just couldn't keep track. When I did finally finish the book I was more mad that I paid money for it. This is one to borrow but not pay for. If you'd like to practice your english skills, this ones for you. Maybe Bill's editor was too busy to edit this one. The pics didn't match the story either. Hope he has better luck with his next book.
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Title: No Safe Place by Bill G. Cox ISBN: 0786010371 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells by Diane Fanning ISBN: 0312985258 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dead and Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast by Corey Mitchell ISBN: 0786015179 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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