Bitter Blood | Jerry Bledsoe
Title: Bitter Blood Author: Jerry Bledsoe Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood is a haunting, definitive account of a slow-motion train wreck that spans generations and geography. While many entries in the true crime genre leave a reader feeling a sense of somber reflection, this chronicle of the Lynch and Newsom family murders is more likely to leave you in a state of pure, unadulterated fury. What makes the book so terrifying is how "normal" the setting appears. Bledsoe peels back the veneer of Southern social standing to reveal a toxic brew of explosive personalities. Most families have their quirks, but the people in this book take dysfunction to a lethal level. It is a stark look at how easily a facade of respectability can hide something much darker. The central figure, Susie Lynch, emerges not as a victim of Fritz Klenner's influence, but as a master manipulator who controlled everyone and everything her entire life. Bledsoe does a phenomenal job of detailing the trail...