Book review: Red River Girl, by Joanna Jolly (Amazon / Book Depository) "The wide, frozen snake of the Red River curved through the city's landscape, a timeless witness to all that had gone before and all that would come." BBC journalist Joanna Jolly learned of the murder of Tina Fontaine, a 15-year-old Indigenous girl from... Continue Reading →
New York City’s 16-Year Manhunt and Criminal Profiling’s Beginnings
Book review: Incendiary, by Michael Cannell (Amazon / Book Depository) In 1956 there was no such thing as criminal profiling; nobody could recall an instance when the police had consulted a psychiatrist. It was a collaboration fabricated in detective novels, but never found in real life. Every one of today’s profilers, real or televised, traces his... Continue Reading →
A Crucial, Timely Work of Narrative Reportage on Rape Investigation
Book review: A False Report, by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong Amazon / Book Depository It's early, but I'll call it - this will be one of the most important nonfiction titles released this year. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong discovered every reporter's nightmare - they were chasing nearly the same story.... Continue Reading →
One Month In Maryland Homicide
Book review: A Good Month for Murder, by Del Quentin Wilber (Amazon / Book Depository) Reporter Del Quentin Wilber spent an extended chunk of time shadowing the homicide division of Maryland's Prince George's County Police Department. He wasn't exactly sure what he intended to write about the embedded experience, but he was interested in how... Continue Reading →