The Girl Next Door

Gruesome meditation of the Sylvia Likens case through the thin veil of fiction which even Ketchum admits is a reaction to the feelings of rage and helplessness he felt. It's interesting to have the protagonists be a kid who may or may not have been one of the participants in the case, someone who could have been complicit in something everyone must have sensed in the neighborhood.

Strangely I can vividly remembering reading a chapter one this book when I was 12, which seems young for the content.

Quick review trying to leave out spoilers: I finished this book with a trip to the gym where I could work out some aggressions. Anger aggression that is. It'd be easy to confuse the types after reading this book. I felt dirty and angry. It doesn't make me love the book, but I think that's sort of the point. It's worth the time assuming you can control your urges after. Revenge urges that is. :)