Click, Click, Click by Anne Varner and Karen DeVanie!
From heartfelt, altruistic motivation comes this new book, set
in that authors’ hometown, Franklin, Virginia, when high school student, Raymond Trent Whitley went missing in 1990.
Moving at a breath-taking pace, packed with personal anecdotes
and humor, you get a sense of what it was to
be Trent, growing up in Franklin, an enclave of 8,000 people. Authors, Anne Varner and Karen DeVanie, also neatly
bring you into the mind of a killer, bend on launching his criminal career,
even as he strives for normalcy in the aftermath. The killer’s evolution is meticulously detailed
as the blueprint of murder is formulated, and finally enacted. The story moves to the anguish of the Whitley’s,
the gaping hole in their family dynamic as they wait years to find out what
happened to their precious son, as the investigation unfolds.
Hosts of the Sugar-Coated murder podcast, Anne and Karen, deftly
and responsibly navigate the many emotions tethered to any case with a missing
child, and they do so brilliantly. These
ladies also grant us a rare insight into the psychological ramifications of
committing a murder, as the killer devolves into a shadow of his former self, haunted,
and paranoid for good reason. These
ladies have robustly achieved their goal of remembering Trent as a person, putting
him at the center of the story in this tribute to his life, and the struggle
for answers to tragically painful questions.
Click, Click, Click is the first in the ‘Say My Name
Series’, an auspicious undertaking by the authors, and amazing first! Jill highly recommend it to anyone who believes
in justice and has a hankering for all things true crime.
You can listen to Anne and Karen, hosts of the Sugar-Coated Murder Podcast here:
https://linktr.ee/sugarcoatedmurder .
ENJOY!
Dec 2022
