4.5 Stars

For the love of God! This man, Andrew P. Kehoe, was a twat-ass-bastard-piece of sh*t!



I didn’t know anything about this man until this book...or maybe I did and chemo brain fogged the history.

This one man was the greatest mass murderer of children in American history!! Not to mention animals and adults he killed! He deserved to be quartered and set on fire but I digress. He took care of himself at any rate.

This man would have killed more people if some of his plan didn’t go awry. Can you even imagine!!

I felt like the author did a wonderful job of finding out as much information as he could with what was given.

Kehoe destroyed the Bath Consolidated School and it was horrific. Everything he did was horrific and I must say there are graphic scenes in the book.



The author also filled in other tidbits of history inside this story.

I’m going to leave with a quote. They had a special ceremony years later and invited the 9 surviving members of the massacre.

Fifty years after Andrew Kehoe perpetrated his unspeakable act-the greatest mass murder of children in America history-nine elderly women and men who had lived through that calamitous day walked up to the stage and received their diplomas.


Yeah, I cried!!

*Thank you to Netgalley and Little A for a digital copy of this book.

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

Harold Schechter juxtaposes the heinous actions of "seriously troubled" Andrew P. Kehoe against the backdrop of U. S. and world events in the early decades of the Twentieth Century in this novel that demands to be read in one sitting. The novel chronicles the egregious actions of Kehoe, who proclaims himself a victim, in a chilling, thoroughly-researched, true crime novel about the first mass killing In the United States. In stripped-down prose, Schecter presents this crime against society that presaged the mass killings of Columbine, Sandy Hook, and many others in recent history.