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Book Review

The Sons of Gunshooter

by pine breaks

Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons’s intricate, illuminating history text "The Sons of Gunshooter" is about Diné life, family lineages, and legal history. Drawing on extensive archival research, tribal records, and generational... Read More

Book Review

Springtime for Sophie

by Meg Nola

Utilizing archival records, court transcripts, newspaper accounts, and other historical sources, the engrossing true crime book "Springtime for Sophie" delves into a violent murder and the subsequent trial. Richard H. Underwood’s... Read More

Book Review

The Butterfly Thief

by pine breaks

Walter Marsh’s true crime caper "The Butterfly Thief" pieces together several mid-century museum thefts that shook Australia’s leading natural history institutions. In January of 1947, curators at Melbourne’s National Museum of... Read More

Book Review

Mosaic Pieces

by pine breaks

The psychological toll of spending years pursuing vindication is explored in "Mosaic Pieces", a vivid true crime book–cum–family saga. Journalist Wes Skillings’s sobering true crime book "Mosaic Pieces" is about justice gone awry.... Read More

Book Review

Delaware Behaving Badly

by Karen Rigby

"Delaware Behaving Badly" is a fresh compendium of essays about a state’s true crime cases. Dave Tabler’s piquing regional true crime book sums up Delaware’s headline-stealing cases. Treating particular crimes as “windows into... Read More

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