![]() ![]() ![]() The father William and his son John built a house (or rather a shack…) near the town of Cherryvale and were joined at a later date by William’s wife, Elvira, and her daughter Kate. The Bender family arrived in Kansas in the second half of the 19 th Century, fleeing from justice after a series of crimes about which the reader will learn as the story develops. Granted, we all know about Jack the Ripper, but he must be the exception that proves the rule…īefore reading All the Blood We Share I was unaware of the existence of the Bender family and their bloody deeds, so that I went online to seek some more information about them, once I finished the novel, discovering that the author had only filled a few unknown angles with fiction, remaining quite faithful to the macabre reality of the events. Reading this book made me reflect on the fact that we generally consider serial killers a phenomenon of more recent times, while in reality these deranged individuals must always have been among us, their actions gone mostly unreported due to a lack of the kind of information network we enjoy nowadays. ![]()
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