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pluralstories “When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.”
Blurb: Burke, a merc/PI living on the seamiest side of New York City, gets involved in a case involving an abused nine-year-old multiple who has murdered two of his baby foster brothers. Burke has to negotiate a truce between the cops and child welfare groups coming to blows over him... and also get revenge for the multiple's sake.
Why is it worth your time?: It's a pretty good grim-n-gritty crime novel. However, it's probably the only of its like that will be in this catalog, and it comes with caveats. It is very, very much a book from 1991: the memory wars, ritual abuse, and Satanic trappings of group child abuse are all plot points, and the multiple has a murderer headmate. However, and the reason this book is in the catalog, is that it's the only one I've seen that takes a murderer multiple and treats them with sympathy and compassion--it takes the tack not of "multiples don't murder people" but "even if a multiple does murder someone, they still deserve compassion and care." Chosen family and the welfare of children, even "bad" children, are core themes. This is definitely not a book for everybody, but it is a book for SOMEBODY. (Also, it's nice to see someone discuss ritual abuse with the air of, "yeah, the trappings are to scare the victims; Satanism is not itself the problem.")
Plural Tags: MPD, fusion, switching, abuse high-focus
Content Warnings: include spoilers; see comments
Accessibility Notes: Available on paper, ebook, and audiobook.
Blurb: Burke, a merc/PI living on the seamiest side of New York City, gets involved in a case involving an abused nine-year-old multiple who has murdered two of his baby foster brothers. Burke has to negotiate a truce between the cops and child welfare groups coming to blows over him... and also get revenge for the multiple's sake.
Why is it worth your time?: It's a pretty good grim-n-gritty crime novel. However, it's probably the only of its like that will be in this catalog, and it comes with caveats. It is very, very much a book from 1991: the memory wars, ritual abuse, and Satanic trappings of group child abuse are all plot points, and the multiple has a murderer headmate. However, and the reason this book is in the catalog, is that it's the only one I've seen that takes a murderer multiple and treats them with sympathy and compassion--it takes the tack not of "multiples don't murder people" but "even if a multiple does murder someone, they still deserve compassion and care." Chosen family and the welfare of children, even "bad" children, are core themes. This is definitely not a book for everybody, but it is a book for SOMEBODY. (Also, it's nice to see someone discuss ritual abuse with the air of, "yeah, the trappings are to scare the victims; Satanism is not itself the problem.")
Plural Tags: MPD, fusion, switching, abuse high-focus
Content Warnings: include spoilers; see comments
Accessibility Notes: Available on paper, ebook, and audiobook.
