In My Father's Basement

A Serial Killer Novel

By: T.J. Payne

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Just your average father-son story. But with abduction, torture, and murder.

Out of nowhere, a retired 60-year old handyman goes on a murder-spree, abducting healthy young people and torturing them with hand-tools.

After he's caught, a media fascination in The Handyman swells. People want to know why he snapped. They want to hear all the grisly details.

But he'll only tell his gruesome story to one person - his estranged son.

Full of dark twists and turns, In My Father's Basement will have you on the edge of your seat. It is a must-listen psychological thriller for anyone who is fascinated by serial killers.

©2018 TJ Payne (P)2019 TJ Payne

Not bad!

Definitely made me cringe during this story something a book hasn't made me feel in a long time. The reader could have been a little less monotone but overall pretty good book.

Graphic!

I enjoyed this book, I’m a huge fan of psychological thrillers. It’s mostly all I read and listen to. This book is very good but I found it hard to listen to at times. Some of the scenes described are very graphic. I recommend it but it’s not for the light hearted.

It was good... until it wasn't.

It's crazy. The book was good & I was thinking exactly that until the last few minutes. I won't mess it up for anyone but wish that I hadn't heard the very end. I can't tell anyone to just stop listening just before the last little bit because I wouldn't be able to do that myself but, if I could go back & mentally delete the ending, I totally would.

What If Gary Heidnik had a son and he wrote a book

The story is straight from what Serial Rapist and Murder Gary Heidnik did to his victims. predictable but decent listen if you like serial killer books.

Disturbing Tale with Lots of Twists!

This is my second T.J. Payne audio book and I really enjoyed this one! The story is one of a handy man turned serial killer and his son. The interactions between the father and son are engaging and the story telling is on par with any other enjoyable crime/horror books I've read in the past except that there were some twists and turns that I didn't see coming during the final chapters of the book. These twists make this book stand out in my mind and definitely make it more memorable than it would have been without them.

The narrator did a very good job at conveying the emotions of the characters in the book, but I don't feel his voice did Walter (the father) justice and just wasn't as haunting or gruff as I would have liked. Overall Joe Hempel does a good job at narrating this disturbing book and leaving it engrained in my mind for some time to come.