Where is your nonfiction section please.
Book review: Not Just Evil: Murder, Hollywood, and California's First Insanity Plea by David Wilson (Amazon / Book Depository) Shortly before Christmas in 1927, a twelve-year-old girl was kidnapped from her school in Los Angeles. After a ransom was arranged with her father, Marion Parker's horrifically mutilated body was returned. Her killer, a young man named William... Continue Reading →
Book review: American Ghost, by Hannah Nordhaus Book Depository I'd saved this for a Halloweeny read, and I'm glad that I read it after Colin Dickey's Ghostland. It got a fair amount of negative, or at least disappointed, Goodreads reviews, and I might have felt the same if I hadn't learned so much from his book about why... Continue Reading →
Book review: Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo (Amazon / Book Depository) This is a narrative nonfiction account of the infamous Jersey Shore shark attacks of the summer of 1916, which supposedly influenced Peter Benchley in writing Jaws. There are some recognizable similarities, and I actually love Jaws (yeah, I've only seen the movie), but honestly - I think I would've... Continue Reading →
Book review: Bluegrass: A True Story of Murder in Small-Town Kentucky, by William Van Meter (Amazon / Book Depository) After finishing Hillbilly Elegy, I was still in the mood to read about Appalachia, so Bluegrass seemed a good option to check off my reading list. I'm not sure how I found it, but I love stories from the lesser known... Continue Reading →
Book review: Butcher, Baker: A True Account of a Serial Murder, by Walter Gilmour and Leland E. Hale (Amazon / Book Depository) Butcher, Baker is the true story from the law enforcement side of the investigation and capture of 1970s/80s Alaskan serial killer Robert Hansen. Originally published in 1991, a new ebook edition is being rereleased... Continue Reading →
Book review: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places Ghostland is a perfect October read. It's hard to find a nonfiction book about ghosts and hauntings that's not an utter cheeseball groanfest. And although it's sometimes (sometimes!) fun to watch ridiculous, guilty pleasure TV shows about spookiness (I mean, we have networks devoted to the genre - I came... Continue Reading →
What's Nonfiction? 