Innocent Blood: A John Jordan Mystery
Michael Lister
Pulpwood, May 5 2015, $26.95
www.pulpwoodpress.com
ISBN 9781888146493
In 1979 tweener John Jordan obsesses over the growing number of
Black male children vanishing in the Atlanta area. The latest missing child Edward Hope Smith
disappeared after leaving the Greenbriar Skating rink only to be found dead a
week later; other murders followed over the next few years.
In 1980, twelve year old John’s parents take him and his two
siblings on a vacation in Atlanta. At
the Omni Arcade, John intrudes on a man trying to persuade a boy his age to
leave with him. Several months later FBI
agents question Wayne Williams. Soon
after their second interrogation, Williams holds a press conference in which
John recognizes him as the creepy adult at the Omni Arcade. He informs his father who works with the task
force trying to end the serial killings.
After graduating high school, John remains obsessed over the Atlanta
Child Murderers in spite of Williams’ conviction. Looking closely at problems with the
prosecution’s case and applying it to a murdered deceased not included on those
considered victims of Williams, Jordan investigates.
The keys to the tremendous seventh John Jordan mystery are the
plausible inquiry and resolution to the Atlanta Child Murderers that haunted
the city thirty-five years ago and the hero’s traits remain consistent with his
later cases as a chaplain (see Blood Sacrifice and Rivers to Blood). Innocent Blood is an excellent amateur sleuth based on a real serial
killing case.
Harriet Klausner
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