“My Husband’s Trying to Kill Me!”: A True Story of Money, Marriage, and Murderous Intent by Jim Schutze
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
My Husband’s Trying to Kill Me is a true crime story that occurred in Dallas, Texas in the 1980s. The story started very interesting, and I enjoyed learning about the couple’s marriage and subsequent divorce proceedings. When we got to the point that her husband was trying to kill her, I was surprised to see that there was still 60% of the story to go.
The pace of the book changed dramatically at that point and became very slow. Every conversation was relayed in sometimes excruciating detail. The dialogue was stilted and honestly made some of the characters sound entitled, hysterical and not very bright. This could have been magnified by the narrator’s voice choices for the female characters.
This book could have been very good if the author had spent less time on some of the minutia and spent more time discussing the back story of the marriage and covered the subsequent trial with more detail.
At the end of the story is when we learn that the book was originally written in 1992 and was only now being reissued as an audio book. I would have liked a quick chapter updating where the important characters were now 30 years later.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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