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One Monday We Killed Them All, first published in 1961, is a tight crime thriller. The story is a stand-off between a cop and a robber.
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One Monday We Killed Them All, first published in 1961, is a tight crime thriller. The story is a stand-off between a cop and a robber.
- Dave
Mar 9, 2018 · While the book's nucleus is family affairs and it's worrisome burden, the gritty crime-thriller builds to an explosive climax. Dwight's cerebral tension spills over into a procedural pace, marking boundaries, staking out, planning and commitment.
Books like this are the reason I read JM. This is an absolute page-turner, yet JM fits myriad brilliant observations of human nature and the grey-area realities of law enforcement, criminality, love and politics into this masterfully paced, suspenseful tale with true-to-life, multi-dimensional characters.
- Larry Webber
A small town cop called Fenn Hillyer has an idyllic marriage save for one small detail — his wife Meg's brother, Dwight McAran. McAran is a psychopathic thug. And he's just about to be released from prison.
This book is narrated by a police detective who is forced to house his clearly evil brother-in-law after that brother-in-law is released from prison for manslaughter. Fenn, the detective, knows the man is no good, but his wife refuses to see her brother for who he is and insists that he have a place to stay.
One Monday We Killed Them All, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. Brick by bitter brick, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself.
