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39 years old. New Jersey resident. Fan of mystery novels, classic literature, and non-fiction about movies, television, sports, and American history.

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Black, White, and Red All Over

Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder that Hooked American on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

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On September 16, 1922, two bodies are found in a New Jersey park, a man and a woman. They’ve both been shot and the woman has nearly been decapitated  In a sleepy community like this such a crime would naturally cause a commotion, but when it turns out that the deceased are a local minister and a woman who is very much not his wife, the fervor goes into overdrive. The case, known as the Hall-Mills murders, inflamed a media war between New York’s three […]

Scary Indiana

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

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A Fever in the Heartland is the third book I’ve read by Timothy Egan. In The Immortal Irishman, he told the fascinating story of Thomas Meager, an Irish revolutionary turned general in the American Civil War. In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, he told the equally fascinating story of Edward Curtis, a photographer who spent decades compiling a pictorial record of the continent’s indigenous peoples. His latest work is very different, and though it is an important and sadly relevant story, “fascinating” is probably […]

Winters of Discontent

Five Decembers by James Kestrel

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Detective Joe McGrady is the low-man on the totem pole in the Honolulu PD, so he’s the one who gets the call when a thankless case comes up on the night before Thanksgiving, 1941. Two bodies have been brutally mutilated in a decrepit shack, one a white American male and the other a Japanese female. But when it comes out that one of the victims is related to a powerful Admiral, McGrady finds himself embroiled in the case of a lifetime. He pursues his main […]

Back to School

I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai

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Bodie Kane, a film professor and co-host of a popular Old Hollywood podcast, returns to the campus of the boarding school she graduated from over two decades ago to guest lecture a couple of classes. When one of her students reveals an obsession with a murder that occurred while Bodie was a student, she reluctantly agrees to help her investigate the case. Thalia Keith, whom Bodie briefly roomed with, was killed after the opening night of a school production of Camelot. Her skull was bashed […]

Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

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The last book I reviewed for this site was Janice Hallett’s The Appeal, in which most of the characters were involved with an amateur production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Though it was clearly tangential to the plot and unnecessary to parse the mystery, I was still a tad embarrassed to be unfamiliar with the play. So I decided to rectify that. Miller’s play tells the story of two families, the Kellers and the Deevers, who used to be next-door neighbors. The fathers were […]

Broken Glass

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

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A hotel bartender accepts a billionaire’s proposal to pretend to be his wife. Unbeknownst to her, his financial empire is a giant Ponzi scheme heading for inevitable collapse. That collapse will spiral outward, forever altering the lives of many, like the night manager at the hotel where the billionaire met the bartender, and the shipping executive also present in the bar for their meeting. They and the other investors will never got over the loss of their savings, nor will they ever recover from the […]



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