The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

by Alex Grecian

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May Contain Spoilers


"You know who you are! And you know that you cannot keep yourself secret from Him! You know in your heart if you are a wolf or a butcher, a lamb, or a Gardener! You know if you are worthy and you know if He has chosen you! And, my people, if He has chosen you, then you are among the pure! And you will be welcomed at the last!"


Skottie Foster is a newly single parent who has moved back to small-town Kansas to start over. Her daughter isn't really happy about this move and lets it be known every chance she gets. Not only is Skottie dealing with a child who is acting up, but she is also one of the very few African American State Troopers and the only women State Trooper in her area. This makes her job even more difficult and dangerous when she goes into certain areas.

We then have Travis Ronan who is a Nazi hunter who is looking for a fellow agent with very little information. His job is complicated and one he tries to keep secret as long as possible. He also has his very lovable but huge sidekick Bear who does a very good job of keeping people away or at least on edge when he is around.

Finally, we have the Nazi. Rudy Goodman (formerly known as Rudolph Bormann) who is still living and potentially the cause of so many missing people and why half of a town acts so strange.


This book had me needing to know what was going to happen next. I was constantly on edge and very curious to see where it was going and if it was going to connect to something else. The jump between time periods was very clear which I really appreciated.
As for Skottie and Travis's pov's I really enjoyed them. I liked seeing things from a women state troopers pov for a change and seeing how she was trying to make it work back in her hometown. Travis and his job were fascinating to me, I would have liked to get to see more of the actual Nazi-hunting part especially his past cases to get to know him a little better.
The way these two were able to work together as a team was a little weird at first, but as the book went on it got a little less weird. Everything did happen very fast, so they didn't have a lot of time to really become friends and truly work together. But the little bit we did see I think they could make a really great team.

I genuinely felt sick multiple times when it came to the Nazi's pov. He was doing so many things to people that were sickening and awful. The fact that he was allowed to get away with it for so long and that he somehow got people to follow him, it gives me the bad kind of chills/shivers.

One thing I did notice about this book that made it a little hard to read at times is some of the weirdly worded dialogue. It just didn't make a lot of sense at times to me. Besides that, I really enjoyed all the different POV's and getting to see so many different sides of the case. This one thankfully has fewer characters were seeing the pov from making it a lot easier to follow along with without getting them confused.