Jessica Hilburn
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Snake Eyes: Murder in a Southern Town
Cathie Ward’s death clearly affected a generation of children from Hot Springs, but Martin’s work offers no unique angle to the true crime genre. Not recommended.
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Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case
Fans of Dateline will be interested in this work, which will likely only grow in popularity when the miniseries The Thing About Pam, starring Renée Zellweger, premieres in March 2022.
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Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers, 25 Years Later
An unflinching look at some of the most marginalized members of society. Those who appreciated Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption or Zehr’s and Toew’s other books on restorative justice will be eager to read this heartfelt work.
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True Crime Philadelphia: From America’s First Bank Robbery to the Real-Life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire
Readers in the Philadelphia area will likely be most interested, though general audiences will appreciate how Canavan uses historic images to create a vivid sense of setting.
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A Century of Swindles: Ponzi Schemes, Con Men, and Fraudsters
Readers interested in the topic would be better served by a narrative about a single con man, such as Dean Jobb’s Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation.
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Pure Narco: One Man’s True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels
Readers who enjoyed Jordan Belfort’s The Wolf of Wall Street may be interested in the debauchery of this book, but its greater appeal will be limited.
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
While the book would benefit from more specific notes about interviews with the people involved, Brown tells a gripping, horrifying tale, and few are spared her critique. A must for public library collections, and especially noteworthy for readers of Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy To Protect Predators.
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“Prisons Make Us Safer”: And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration
While this book may be useful for academic libraries, public libraries are better served by other titles, such as Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow.
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
Jobb’s compelling account of Cream’s reign of terror will appeal to readers interested in Jack the Ripper or Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.
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