Live, from Chinatown NYC, a reading of this past weekend’s essay about the best of the best true crime books. Just want the list? That’s below, with links. Speaking of Chinatown: let me know if you’re interested in reading The Snakehead, by Patrick Radden Keefe (his
I was doing so well not buying books to pile on my overflowing To Read shelf, then y’all posted this list. I’ve been reading true crime for 30 yrs (mostly the non-sensational stuff), and could not resist buying several of you suggestions. Snakehead was one of them. Love the idea of book club discussion on it though not sure how soon I’d finish it. Then again I have a 5 hr flight to Vegas Thursday. 🙂
Another good book: A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins. She writes about the rape and violent murder of her two female cousins in 1991 and the near murder of her male cousin who was with them, and harshly interrogated and falsely accused for their deaths, until a tip finally turned attention on the actual perpetrators. She did such an amazing job of describing the devastating effect their deaths, the false accusation, and subsequent trials of the murderers had on her family, I don’t if I could read again. Side note: Cummins briefly gained attention a few years ago for her book American Dirt, was celebrated then practically cancelled because she was considered too white to tell the a fictional story of an immigration story.
I was doing so well not buying books to pile on my overflowing To Read shelf, then y’all posted this list. I’ve been reading true crime for 30 yrs (mostly the non-sensational stuff), and could not resist buying several of you suggestions. Snakehead was one of them. Love the idea of book club discussion on it though not sure how soon I’d finish it. Then again I have a 5 hr flight to Vegas Thursday. 🙂
Another good book: A Rip in Heaven by Jeanine Cummins. She writes about the rape and violent murder of her two female cousins in 1991 and the near murder of her male cousin who was with them, and harshly interrogated and falsely accused for their deaths, until a tip finally turned attention on the actual perpetrators. She did such an amazing job of describing the devastating effect their deaths, the false accusation, and subsequent trials of the murderers had on her family, I don’t if I could read again. Side note: Cummins briefly gained attention a few years ago for her book American Dirt, was celebrated then practically cancelled because she was considered too white to tell the a fictional story of an immigration story.