This horrifying true crime tale chronicles the events leading up to the arrest of career criminal John Huggins for the brutal murder of Carla Ann Larson in Orlando, Florida in 1997: After the crime was featured on America's Most Wanted, a tip led to Huggins's estranged wife, Angel. What Angel had to say led to her husband's arrest.
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good story but poorly told,
By Reader "clhmbrsq" (Missouri United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Evidence of Murder: A Twisted (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a story about a man, John Huggins, who kidnaped and murdered engineer and new mother Carla Larson when she went to a supermarket at lunch time. It is unlike most true crime books I have read in that it is difficult to tell which perspective is used by the author. There is not much said about the victim or her family, so although you feel horrible about the crime, there are no "bonds" created in the book. Most of the trial was covered with little attention paid to the important parts but way too much time spent on irrelevant things (i.e., "The following morning Jeff Ashton wore a conservative blue suit and his lightly gray streaked brown hair was carefully combed. As his bright brown eyes panned across the faces of the jurors, he began in a confident voice." The author then describes Ashton's "dramatic closing" argument without sharing any of that drama with the reader). The book is written like a screenplay, with way too much of it being quotations that are completely irrelevant and very boring (i.e., "Ashton smiled at his partner. 'Whew! This Tampa heat sure gets to me. We've walked two blocks and I'm wringing wet. My shirt is sticking to me.' 'Me too. It seems to me that Tampa is so much hotter than Orlando. Or is this just a heat wave or something? Either way I'll be glad to get inside and cool off.' When seated, Ashton reached for the menu. 'What looks good to you, Jim?' 'Something cold' he answered. 'Yeah, and a big glass of iced tea with lots of ice.'" This was the part of the book talking about the "dramatic" trial. Much of the book sounds like the author was an uninformed observer: "public defender Bob Wesley leaned his body toward Huggins and made some comment to his client, then turned to address the court and jury". What was the comment? If we don't know, why is that relevant? Repeatedly, people were described as "rising to his full six-foot-height", like they would otherwise slump to half their height? The irrelevant comments, the screenplay writing, and the lack of emotional bonding with the characters made this book less than a pleasure to read. I recommend "A Killer Among Us" by Charles Bosworth, Jr., as an example of how a writer can emotionally attach the reader to the story's characters and present the trials in an interesting and dramatic way.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Unbelievable that this was published,
This review is from: Evidence of Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
If this book had been sold as fiction it would have been rejected because of the corny dialogue the entire thing is written in. Apparently the author has never read a true crime book. Most are written as narratives. I don't see anywhere a note from the author that dialogue has been reconstructed or imagined, which it had to have been. Don't waste money on this one, or time; it's not even worth reading as a library book.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't Make it Through the Book....,
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This review is from: Evidence of Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
Wow. What can I say but that reading all of the dialog between the two main detectives wore me OUT. I tried really hard like it, but abandoned it less than half-way through, because there was more mundane dialog than there was action or story.
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