Tag: true crime

  • The Monster We Make by Rachel Corbett

    Criminal profiling: what’s it good for? Rachel Corbett takes a stab at it (I’ll see myself out) and comes away with a book that is an easy read, informative, but also a little light. Corbett starts off by talking about a personal situation which led her down the path of crime investigating. What follows is…

  • Ordinary Wife by Gregg and Morgan Olsen

    How do you solve a problem like Lyda? For the sake of this review, I am just going to say “Lyda” since going by one of her many last names would be exhausting. You see, she was married a lot, and her husbands had a horrible penchant for dying right after they signed insurance paperwork.…

  • Redemption by Lawrence Wright

    Redemption by Lawrence Wright is not what you think it is. Sure, you are getting the story of nuns going to death row to meet with women who may one day be executed by the state of Texas. However, Wright wants to ask the big and unanswerable questions about the justice system, God, and, of…

  • Sleuth-Hound by Lindsey Fitzharris

    I don’t know if it’s superior deduction like Sherlock Holmes or just some sort of black magic, but Lindsey Fitzharris has once again left me asking a simple question. How the hell does this author know to write exactly what I want to read about? She did it first with The Facemaker and now with…

  • American Alt by Chris Lockhart

    Schizophrenia seems like a massive challenge by itself, but if you add dissociative identity disorder to it then you get, well, Michael Dodd! Dodd is one of two main characters in the excellent American Alt by Chris Lockhart. Lockhart, the author, is the other main character who doesn’t have either of those mental disorders, but…

  • The Jackal by Joby Warrick

    When you think of Carlos the Jackal, you probably picture a suave, cold-blooded hitman roaming the capitals of the world. He has every action planned to the most minute detail. He can think on his feet. He is James Bond without a moral core. That’s a cool visual and all, but the real Carlos the…

  • Checkmate by Ben Mezrich

    If only there was a way in chess for everyone to lose. No, a draw doesn’t count. However, you could make the argument that Checkmate by Ben Mezrich ends in a draw and that’s what everyone deserves. The story is about chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen and a young (and supremely obnoxious) Hans Niemann. You may…

  • Kingdom of Devils by Katherine Grandjean

    Quick, what do you think of when I say what happened after the American Revolution, and before the Civil War? The Louisiana Purchase? Yes! Ratifying the Constitution? Perfect! America’s first spree killers? Oh, didn’t see that coming did you? Well, don’t feel bad. Katherine Grandjean surprised me too with her excellent Kingdom of Devils. The…

  • The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef

    I don’t know. Maybe I am just a prude, but I have never looked at a toad and thought, “Man, I’d really love to ingest the secretions of this animal. Might just change my life.” However, Kimon de Greef is here to tell us that a lot of people did have those thoughts in his…