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Serial Killers

October 29, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review: Conjured by Sarah Beth Durst

“Don’t contact anyone from your past.  Don’t tell anyone about your past.  Forget the rules . . . and die.” Eve remembers nothing of her past.  She is in witness protection.  They need her to remember and testify; she has escaped a serial killer that uses magic to kill his prey.  They say she knows […]

September 3, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Decisions are Only the Beginning a guest post by Julie Anne Lindsey

I was originally going to blog about the lies people tell us “for our own good” and how infuriating that is because let’s face it, we’re all tougher than people think. Then, my daughter’s babysitter came over to play with her while I wrote and plans changed. Babysitter was clearly in a funk and with […]

October 11, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Thursday Throwdown: 80’s Movie Serial Killers

We’ve been talking about all sorts of horror and things lately (see My Horrific Life or I Eat Cereal But I Am Not A Serial Killer), and more will come throughout October.  I am a fan of the 80’s horror movies, back when you knew that the blood was fake and the killers were behind masks.  So I […]

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I eat cereal, but I am not a serial killer (Serial Killers in YA Lit)

October 8, 2012 by Karen Jensen, MLS

This is a completely true story:  One day I was picking my 6 year-old daughter up from Vacation Bible School and when I asked her how it was she said, “It was good.  No one put duct tape on my mouth and locked me in the trunk.”  As you can imagine, this was not the […]

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