Category: crime
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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is a dark psychological thriller novel about a woman found guilty of murdering her husband via multiple gunshot wounds within their home. Due to her refusal to talk afterwards, she’s been transferred to a psychiatric ward. Years later, after her notoriety and publicity have come down a bit, psychotherapist…
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The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina takes the readers on a bleak and almost dystopian view of life out in the deep ocean. With almost four years of hands-on experience traveling to countries to report on the myriad of topics and stories for the book, it’s a sobering and also horrifying experience to really learn…
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Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer talks about the brutal killing of an innocent woman and her baby daughter in the mid-1980s by two brothers whom one of them believed that doing so was doing God’s work. It’s the story about how Mormonism and equally important, how the different sects were created, especially…
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Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon is an appropriately named investigative novel that delves into the lives of the previous six or seven popes and how their winning the conclave election to become supreme rulers of the Roman Catholic Church have created an uproar,…
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard goes over the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s. I’ve always been fascinated by the witch trials, even going back to when I was a kid. Even though we were obviously taught that the accused were actually innocent, it still…
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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre tells the story of how six Arab gunmen stormed the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 while the U.S. embassy hostage crisis in Tehran was happening simultaneously. Not only did it change London forever afterwards because of…
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There There by Thomas Orange is a contemporary novel surrounding a dozen or so members of the Native community and how their lives will inevitably be intertwined and affected. There There, unfortunately for me, is one of the worst novels I’ve fully completed in a while. There are just so many things that I did…
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie is a memoir going over the events before, during, and afterwards of the attempted murder of the author himself on August 12 of 2022. To be quite honest and clear, I had never heard of Salman Rushdie before this attack. I do remember getting notifications of…
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The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger is a fantastic literary historical fiction piece of work. It explores some of the racial problems we face today but focuses mainly on the Native Americans in a small town in Jewel, Minnesota. While the story takes place a little after World War II, racial issues are…
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The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea talks about a true story in the early 2000s regarding a group of illegal “entrants” who tried their luck crossing the Mexican border into the United States and how horribly the mission went for many of them. The book became a national bestseller and even a Pulitzer finalist.…
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