Book 28: Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Format:  Hardback (First Edition - woot!)

Date Started:  June 20, 2019
Date Finished:  June 21, 2019

I am a Murderino.  I blame my parents who let me read whatever I wanted.  I was probably in 6th grade when I stumbled onto the author Lois Duncan and quickly plowed through all of her scary/thriller books for pre-teens.  Browsing the bookstore with my dad one afternoon, I found her book, "Who Killed My Daughter," which is the true story of her own daughter's unsolved murder.  I must have read that book over a dozen times, and I'm dying to read it again...after I re-buy a copy because mine was donated to the library in the early 2000s.  Thanks, Mom.

I feel like Georgia & Karen have similar origin stories as to how their interest in true crime developed.  And while I was originally extremely nervous to read this book -- it was billed as a memoir, so I thought I'd have to hear in detail about their formative years -- I LOVED IT.

What the ladies do so well here (and in their podcast) is share their experiences in an extremely relatable way.  From Karen's fights with her sister to Georgia's burning desire to get out of high school, there's something in this book that we can all find echoed in our own lives.  And, I think that right now, that's something that we all need a lot more of.

Good-bye.