Please See Us, a book review
Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen is a women-in-peril murder mystery written in a haunting, lyrical style. The book opens with a prologue in the voices of the dead silently calling Please See Us. But no one does. The dead are forgotten women, murdered by a sadist and abandoned in a Jersey City marsh between a dilapidated motel and bridge. Jersey City is a character…in fact, a metaphor for the deterioration of place and soul. Forces of fate and poverty…