Review From Here

Join Lynda Drews, author of the true crime book, Run at Destruction: A True Fatal Love Triangle (Title Town Publishing, Aug. ‘09) , as she virtually tours the blogosphere in November on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion!

About the Book

Deeply immersed in the close-knit culture of long-distance running, Pam and Bob Bulik were avid competitors. To all appearances, they were also a happily married couple, devoted to each other and their two young children. Then, Bob made a fateful decision. He began an extramarital affair that led to his wife’s tragic death and to one of the most sensationalized and heavily attended trials in Green Bay’s history.

Candidly written by Pam’s best friend, Run at Destruction exposes the irresistible human passions that make us so vulnerable, and the ultimate price we pay for choosing to act on them. You’ll relive every detail of the crime and the exhaustive police investigation, and watch the courtroom drama from a front-row seat as a major homicide case unfolds in a small town where everyone knows all the players. Then, when you’ve heard all the evidence, you can decide for yourself – was Pam Bulik’s death a terrible accident, intentional suicide, negligent homicide or premeditated murder?

The Review

First off, let me say that I was very anxious to read this book. I have lived 30 minutes away from Green Bay (now 20) my entire life so to read a story about a murder so close to my home town was something I didn’t get the chance to do very often. And, Ms. Drews certainly did not disappoint.

For those of you that don’t know, Green Bay isn’t a large town, and murder is not prevalent there. The thing they are most known for is the Green Bay Packers. The town and people are depicted flawlessly in this novel, and the author has done a wonderful job of blending facts with feelings as she was in the mix at the time the murder took place. Taking you on this journey could not have been an easy task, but I am thankful the author put forth the effort. This novel lays out the information so you get a glimpse of how Lynda sees things leading up to the day of the murder, and how she views things after. Some may think it is biased because this was her friend, and it may be. But, I never once felt that she was misleading in the information she presented.

This was certainly a story that needed to be told and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in something you won’t be able to put down – I finished it in one sitting and my husband is currently reading it. Highly recommended!

About the Author

Lynda Drews, a Wisconsin native and dedicated runner, recently gave the commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, her college Alma mater. One lesson she shared with the graduates was: “to journal your life.” When Lynda, an IBM marketing executive, made the decision to retire after her thirty-year career, she returned to an earlier passion. Run at Destruction is the outcome.

Even though this is Lynda’s first book, she has inside knowledge about the victim and the accused. One of the book’s themes is the impact her best friend’s mysterious death has on Green Bay’s close-knit running community. Lynda and her husband, Jim, a retired teacher and guidance counselor, helped launch the local running movement. Green Bay now hosts the nation’s fifth largest 10K, attracting more than 15,000 participants.

Along with a golden retriever named Bailey, Lynda and her husband have two sons, Collin and Chris. After they reached sixth grade, the author let them pick a yearly one-on-one trip with just their mom. One son chose exotic places like Cancun, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, and skiing in Oregon, while the other went to the bathroom sized PEZ Museum in San Francisco, and to eight different locales where the Dave Mathews Band played. Lynda may be the oldest person in the world that’s been to fifteen DMB concerts!

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