The Unclaimed Victim

De: D. M. Pulley

Narrado por: Carly Robins

In 1938, at the height of the Great Depression, a madman hunts his victims through the hobo jungles of Cleveland, terrorizing the city. Ethel Harding, a prostitute struggling to survive both the cold streets and the Torso Killer, takes refuge with a devout missionary sect - only to find that its righteous facade conceals the darkest of secrets.

Sixty years later, the police find the butchered body of Alfred Wiley in the woods. But before his daughter, Kris, can even identify the remains, things he never told her begin to surface one by one - a mysterious private eye who'd been tracking him, an eerie website devoted to the unsolved "Torso" murders, missing archives, stolen books, and an abandoned Bible factory harboring vagrants. The more she learns about her father's obsession with the Torso Killer, the more Alfred's death appears to be related, pulling Kris further into Cleveland's hellish past.

Living decades apart, Ethel and Kris must unravel the truth behind the city's most notorious serial killer...or die trying.

©2017 D.M. Pulley (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Awesome book!

I love the way this author tells the story from 2 different aspects and time frames. It kept me engaged and guessing til the very end. Very nice twist at the end!

Gory but still won't close it

I had to stop reading this book and come back to it a couple of times. story is so good but it's so gory...

BRILLIANT MODERN WRITER

Love, love love this author for crazy clever writiing. Happy to report that there are 3 she has written. Please. buy. now.

Story dragged on and hard to listen to.

the story drag on entirely too long and the reader of the book was hard to listen to

outstanding!! fabulouso!

I've read all of the books by this author! can't wait for another one!!! I love the story style of writing and characters. great story teller!

It was ok

Honestly, the story is good. The performance- she did ok with different voices, but she’d get super quiet and then wicked loud. Very hard to listen to while driving.

Good listen

I didn’t like the southern accent given to the people from Ohio but other than that everything was great.

Uniquely talented historical mystery author!

She is a structural engineer by education and training, but is now a full time author of historical mysteries set in and around Cleveland Ohio. The Unclaimed Victim is her third novel. The first, The Dead Key, remains one of my favorite novels of 2015. The subject is an abandoned bank building and the story of a young engineer and what she finds there. The second, The Buried Book, is the story of a young boy looking for his mother. Both easily earned 5 stars. The Unclaimed Victim is another winner. The story moves constantly between Cleveland of the 1930s and Cleveland (and a nearby town) of 1999. The 1930s portions are about the Cleveland Torso Murderer who removed victims heads and limbs and posed their torsos. The Torso Murderer was real; he killed at least 12 people, 5 women and 7 men, only four of whom were identified. He was also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. The 12 Cleveland murders occurred between 1935 and 1938 inclusive. Some believe he killed at least 13 others in other cities between the late 1920s and 1950. The Torso Murderer was never identified or captured.

In 1999 torso of a man turns up near Cleveland. It appears based on a tattoo to be the dad of 19 year old Cleveland State University student Kris Wiley, the protagonist of the story. Anything more risks revealing the plot, so I'll stop there. Audible classifies this novel's genre as suspense mystery/thriller while I believe it is more aptly classified as historical mystery/thriller.

Narration is excellent, but it is not as good as either of the author's first two audio novels.

Great read

My third outstanding read/listen from author D.M. Pulley. Extremely well-written and enjoyable. 428 pages & 12 hours & 55 minutes of listening enjoyment! I'm already looking at other books in this series! Narrator Carly Robins adds greatly to the listening enjoyment! I'll be reading more from this author just as soon as the books are written. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 - July 24, 2018).

Great Read

This was a captivating. story with lots of ups and downs. please give it a try. you wont be sorry.