I can’t believe it took me so long to read this book. I’ve been fascinated by the Zodiac case for years, ever since I first saw David Fincher’s movie based on this book, but I think I always felt like the book was too dated to bother with since it was written in 1985. Well, I was wrong. This book is completely engrossing. I think most people probably know the basic outline of the Zodiac murders–a serial killer murdered several people in San Francisco in […]
How to wind up your ‘betters’
Do you enjoy Victorian literature? Fascinated by true crime? Then you could find a lot to enjoy in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which deals with a murder that rocked Victorian England – the death of the three year old darling of a middle class family, stolen from his crib in a locked house and found dumped in a privy with his throat cut. Calling upon the Government to send one of its newly created detectives to solve the case (and receiving the titular Mr […]
The Water Trade
So this book is another audiobook that I borrowed from my library. It’s narrated by a British guy, so everything sounds better. I love love love the way he says the name of the town/district this all occurs in. I just repeat “Robongi” over and over in my head after I’m done listening. SPOILERS AHOY! Lucie Blackman was a young, tall, blonde girl from England. She lived a fairly normal life, and had a sister named Sophie, and a brother (whose name I can’t remember […]
Do you know anyone like the Columbine shooters? You might.
What is Columbine to you? Before April 20th, 1999, Columbine was simply a school to most people, if not the flower for which it was named. After the devastating shooting that took 13 lives and terrorized hundreds more, Columbine was a symbol of mass murder and disaster. Maybe you have heard of Columbine, maybe you haven’t. But whatever Columbine was to you before reading this book, will surely change. Columbine is a media driven narrative. As the events of the Columbine shooting unfolded, that narrative […]
Sympathy for the Devil.
“Nonetheless, he found it possible to look at the man beside him without anger—with, rather, a measure of sympathy—for Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of roses but pitiful, an ugly and lonely progress toward one mirage and then another.” – – – I remember being gobsmacked by this book when I read it for the first time six years ago, and now upon re-read, I find it’s just as good. In fact, it’s one of those books where the satisfaction comes not from […]
A Monstrous Nightmare
In 2000, writer Douglas Preston moved his family to a villa in Tuscany so he could work on a new mystery that would take place in Florence. Soon after, he discovers that a clearing near his new house was the scene of a gruesome double murder. The murder was attributed to the Monster of Florence, a serial killer who targeted young couples and was still at large. Preston abandons his novel and begins working on a nonfiction work about the Monster, teaming up with Mario […]
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