This was an Amazon Prime benefit book selection. The books selected by Amazon vary in quality but Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family by Pietro La Greca, Jr. did not disappoint. Pesos is part memoir of La Greca’s growing up in a…
Savage Harvest is controlled chaos. I really wanted to give between four and five stars to Carl Hoffman’s extensive biographical investigation into Michael Rockefeller’s death in a remote Asmat village located in New Guinea. However, like Chaos: Charles Manson, the Cia, and the Secret History…
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI’s Original Mindhunter is one of several non-fiction books on serial killers and what makes them tick. What makes Douglas’ work unique is his decades of experience in developing (along…
From 1978 to 1981, Fred Harlan Coke aka Kevin Coe (after a name change) terrorized the women of Spokane, Washington, raping and assaulting them, oftentimes with a knife generally at night while pretending to be a jogger. The hand down the throat and the asking…
The Dark Heart recounts the presumed disappearance of Göran Lundblad in September 2012 and the investigation, both official and unofficial, that led to the discovery of his body and the truth that what most suspected in community of Norra Förlösa (on the eastern inland side…