Litsy

The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne | Kate Winkler Dawson

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I had the privilege to hear this author talk about her book at the #TexasBookFestival and I immediately had to track it down. It tells the true story of a murder that was the inspiration for Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter and the woman who tried to bring the likely killer to justice. It examines true crime, the victims, their families and the storytellers bringing everything to light. Really good on #audio

Morr_Books I was at that talk too! ❤️ I really loved meeting and talking with her. 4d

lil1inblue That sounds fascinating! Stacked. 3d

Julsmarshall Love that, @Morr_Books ! I need to check out her podcast too! 3d

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place | Kate Summerscale

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Women's Prize long list book that I am just getting to. This was fine. I want to be a True Crime Girlie but I just don't think I am. I need more focus on the victims. This I think fails in marketing, the book is much more focused (IMO) on journalism. What information is given, how it is relayed. I think there are a lot of interesting tid bits in here but overall I didn't find the book itself interesting, it seemed a bit direction less.

danx Related to your desire for focus on the victims, I really enjoyed The Five by Hallie Rubenhold. Focuses on the lives of the victims of Jack the Ripper rather than the killer. We need more of this. 3d

ChaoticMissAdventures @danx I liked that one too. It did feel like there wasn't enough information for the author to work with though. But I really appreciate the effort. 2d

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MyNamesParadise

Christmas Crimes at The Mysterious Bookshop | Otto Penzler

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4 stars! This is the December pick 4 my Mystery/Thriller book club & I will say I was very pleased with this collection of short stories. Out of the 12, there were only 4 that I didn‘t care for as much so that‘s pretty good!! The ones I liked were by Jason Starr, Rob Hart, Laura Lippman, Jeffery Deaver, Thomas Perry, Ragnar Jonasson, Tom Mead, & David Gordon. I‘m eager to see what other club members will think of the different stories! Great pick!

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ChaoticMissAdventures

The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place | Kate Summerscale

#10BeforeTheEnd Week 5

How is everyone doing??

I am glad I put enough nonfiction on here to get me through Nonfiction November! All the NF is ticked off (finishing Peepshow today) I now have some chunksters while I also look at #ToB

Anyone else feel like they are running out of steam??

Ruthiella I‘m on track at 50%. 👍 And at least two of the remaining will double up for other challenges. Dunno if I will manage all ten but at least eight. 6d

willaful Pretty much on track - DNFing one book helped. 😂 6d

sarahbarnes I‘m reading my fourth…I‘m now getting distracted by library holds and the TOB longlist! 📚 📚 📚 6d

Dilara I'm on track: I've finished 7 of the books on my list because some were unexpectedly short and/or quick reads, but also running out of steam in that my motivation has waned for 2 of the books still to be read 😚 6d

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