THE KILLER WHO HATED SOUP
The IRB's Celebrating 10 Years of Intelligent Reviews October 2007-October 2017 Fiction A zesty gumbo THE KILLER WHO HATED SOUP The Killer Who Series, Book 1 By Bill A. Brier 307 pp. Black Opal Books Reviewed by Eric Petersen Mystery writer Bill A. Brier, who made a memorable debut with his first novel The Devil Orders Takeout , (also reviewed on this site) is back with the first in a new series of mysteries set in an unusual time and place and featuring an unusual and colorful sleuth. The story begins with an ominous prologue, as a teenage girl named Marybeth runs through the woods with her baby, desperately trying to evade the man that’s pursuing them – the girl’s own father, who wants to take her child away from her. In the first chapter, we meet our unlikely sleuth. It’s January 1957, and an eager, scrappy young go-getter named Bucky Ontario has arrived in the prairie town of Defiance, Oklahoma. Convinced that Defiance is the next great American boomtown, he left his home in th...