Category: True Crime
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THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by GRADY HENDRIX
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend. Well the blurb sounds like an interesting mash up. And it is. It’s the 90’s and our narrator,…
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A TANGLED WEB by LESLIE RULE
A True Crime Novel Following in her mother’s footsteps, Leslie Rule has made her first stab at true crime. This is the story of Cari Farver. Disappeared from Omaha in 2012, leaving a son she adored and her confused parents and friends. It is the story of a woman who won’t take no for an…
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SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. The horrific conflict known as The Troubles is introduced to us beginning in 1972, when Jean McConville, 38 and a mother of ten children was abducted from her home in front of her…
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THE LIBRARY BOOK by SUSAN ORLEAN
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual false alarm. As one fireman recounted later, “Once that first stack got going, it was Goodbye,…
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Don’t Tell A Soul by M. William Phelps
Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor’s little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn’t lie if her life depended on it—and it did. Cherry’s body was found on the side of…
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