Category Archives: Crime Beat

In Plain Sight, Kathryn Casey. William Morrow, $7.99.

Posted on April 23, 2018 by ubu507

Kathryn Casey is America’s greatest living True Crime writer, period. The reason for this is simple — Casey has a firm grasp of the most important ingredients for any writing, fiction or non. First and foremost is character, and her … Continue reading →

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MAR 28 1966

Posted on January 1, 2018 by ubu507

Mrs. Ruth Muirhead, secretary, examines the damage Vandals Make Shambles Of School; $4,000 Loss

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True Crime

Posted on May 11, 2017 by ubu507

True Crime The body of a young woman lying beneath a power line At 10:45 on the 27th day of January 1980 Two boys out dirt-dogging in a remote area Off Bellvue Avenue thought they had discovered A dead animal … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Casey: Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder

Posted on December 27, 2016 by ubu507

Ever since the loss of Ann Rule, the True Crime world has been in a bit of a funk. To some extent the books that used to come out by the dozens have been replaced by semi-documentaries that proliferate on … Continue reading →

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This Month’s Selection of the Great Lakes Center for Literocity Feminist Book Club

Posted on August 1, 2016 by ubu507
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Since She Went Away, David Bell, New American Library, $16.99.

Posted on June 24, 2016 by ubu507

If you want a compelling reading experience, just pick up a David Bell book. Reading the first page can be like leaning over a suspense generating machine — the gears of the story will grab any loose time you have … Continue reading →

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“The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial” by Maggie Nelson, Graywolf, $16 and “Jane Doe January: My Twenty-Year Search For Truth and Justice” by Emily Winslow, Morrow, $29.99.

Posted on June 21, 2016 by ubu507

  I recently read two great true crime narratives, The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson and Jane Doe January: My Twenty Year Search For  Truth and Justice by Emily Winslow, that started me thinking about the … Continue reading →

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Fuminori Nakamura So Far:

Posted on April 1, 2015 by ubu507

 The Thief, Soho Crime, 14.95. Evil and the Mask, Soho Crime, $15.95. Last Winter We Parted, Soho Crime, $25.00 Although The Thief was not the first novel Fuminori Nakamura published, it is the first to come out here, and it’s … Continue reading →

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From the Great Lakes Centre for the Literary Arts Library of the Literati

Posted on January 30, 2015 by ubu507

I’ll be glad when you’re dead, you rascal you Every bloodthirsty hoodlum, every trigger-happy gunman in the state of California had that song on his lips. I didn’t like it — I’m no music lover and, what’s more, I was … Continue reading →

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KILL

Posted on October 13, 2014 by ubu507
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