Pieces

By: Rebecca Rowland, Michael Aloisi

Narrated by: Sarah Spring

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Thirty boxes.

Thirty body parts.

Eighteen turned in to authorities.

A forensic technician from a quiet Massachusetts suburb does the unthinkable: Stalks a local woman, abducts her, divides her body into 30 pieces, and mails the sections to random Americans across the country. Each white postal box that Dennis Sweeney prepares contains an ambiguous note and a piece of Julie Piedmont. Most of Sweeney’s intended recipients contact the authorities about their gruesome packages, but 12 of the parcels go unreported.

Pieces, the genre-bending hybrid of crime thriller infused with a short-story vibe, takes a closer look at the body parts that were never recovered and the possible reasons why their recipients never told anyone about their grotesque discoveries. Weaving the accounts together is Dennis’ story as well as Jackson Matthews’, the reporter to whom Dennis chooses to document his sick game.

©2019 Michael Aloisi, Rebecca Rowland (P)2019 Dark Ink Audio

4

The serial killer's no longer a market in which I look for a good read. But I tried this title , sold by the publisher's promo :-) And I'm glad I did. Intelligently written, very well narrated, full of surprises. For the curious reader rather than the thrill seeker -- try it.

Terrible Sound Quality

First, the sound quality of this book is awful. It sounds like they recorded it in an airplane hanger or some other huge metal space.

Second, this book had so much potential because the plot is interesting (killer sends body parts to 30 different people and a letter to a reporter to cover the story) but 80% of the book was backstory and set up for each of the 30 people who received the parts.... none of whom contributed anything to the plot.