Category: crime
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Heather by Caitlin Mullen is a mediocre, middle-of-the-road, typical crime novel. It’s one of those novels I swear I’ve read somewhere else. It has your typical newly installed police chief/detective in a small town, bringing with them their own personal problems from before. Is the chief overworked and understaffed? Of course they are. Is the…
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I had thought that learning about L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology in Going Clear by Lawrence Wright would have been the kookiest and nuttiest thing I’d ever read regarding religion and cults. Charles Manson is definitely another very weird chapter in American history, but I feel that both can’t really compare to the story of the…
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As someone who is not familiar with the JFK assassination that happened in the early 1960s, The Housewives Underground by Kaitlyn Tiffany is surprisingly a very good start and not for what you’d first expect. After more than six decades, there are a lot of books on this subject and I’m sure each of them…
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The fifth book in the Matthew Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom, and it’s one of the best so far. It is likely one of the longest books in the series so far, if memory serves me correctly. In truly spectacular fashion, the author seems to have drawn me into Tudor London yet again. I believe…
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I’ve read a couple of investigative journalism novels by Erik Larson, and they were mostly enjoyable. The Devil in the White City, while still enjoyable, warrants a strong caution for any readers thinking this will be yet another typical true crime thriller in which either the hunt for or the life of the criminal dominates…
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Chalk this one up as another must-read novel for fans of nonfiction true crime and investigative journalism. It’s an incredible story about a serial killer in Italy that began in the late 1960s and has yet to be identified to this day—and likely never will be. In this book, a local crime reporter teams up…
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I’ll be honest. If I were to one day meet a sudden, mysterious, and untimely death, I’d likely want this author to investigate and write a book about it. Say Nothing was a great read and introduced me to him. I saw London Falling as one of his newest books to come out, read a…
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Fans of CJ Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake historical mystery series will likely feel right at home here with John Pilkington’s Bishopsgate Ward series. The first of three, Death of a Stranger, introduces us to constable Matthew Cutler. Set in around 1594, it’s right after the London plague, and things are only starting to resemble a normal…
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In the first book in the Frankie Elkin series by Lisa Gardner, readers are introduced to a woman in her mid-forties whose one main goal and purpose is to help find missing people. This is a weird character because Frankie is not a professional private investigator nor a part of some retired police force. All…
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I found myself enjoying this story quite a bit. It wasn’t perfect, but it kept me glued to the story till the very end. Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston is about two completely different women having to team up to spy on one of their husbands for different reasons. Both are near strangers,…
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