While Jar of Hearts does not flinch from visceral descriptions of murder and rape, it is a much deeper story about a high school girl who fell head over heels with a killer and how it destroyed her life.
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When you pick up a book about serial killers called Jar of Hearts, you may be thinking you’re going to get a rehash of the Valentine Killer in Rex Miller’s Slob-one of the better serial killer novels to come from the flood that Shane Stevens’s By Reason of Insanity started, only to be forgotten after Silence of the Lambs and The Stranger Beside Me brought them into the mass culture for good. And now, Jennifer Hillier does the same-but very, very different-with her thriller Jar of Hearts. But there are still entertaining tales to tell about the victims, as Laura Lippman showed masterfully in I’d Know You Anywhere. Even when you’re a supposed “psychopath,” which writers have latched onto with glee as the new serial killer boogeyman in our midst. Personally, I’m against capital punishment for many reasons-most of which you don’t give a tinker’s damn about-but death is too easy. We’ve had a romance with serial killers since Ted Bundy came along looking like he needed a hug instead of the electric chair. Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier is the story of three best friends-one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who’s been searching for the truth all these years.
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