True Crime or Crime Fiction
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: True Crime or Crime Fiction. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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The Missing Cryptoqueen
An acclaimed tech journalist, through a globe-crossing investigation into the criminal underworlds, corrupt governments and the super-rich, presents the inside story of the smartest and biggest cryptocurrency scam of the 21st century--and the genius behind it who is still on the run.
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You Never Know
Alexis Roberts can give few details about the intruder who broke into her home and tried to assault her; it was night, and without her cochlear implants she couldn't hear much. But her husband, Marcus, vanished after she learned that his first wife was missing and presumed dead, and she's terrified that he's come back. –(Library Journal)
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Murder at Teal's Pond
In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of 'Twin Peaks.' (Publisher)
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In the Mouth of the Wolf
Corcoran, the former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America, debuts with a searing look at the unsolved 2012 murder of Regina Martínez, an investigative reporter for the Mexican magazine Proceso. (Publisher’s Weekly)
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My Darkest Prayer
Having blasted into the thriller stratosphere with Razorblade Tears and Blacktop Wasteland, Cosby earns a reissue of his debut novel. Here, former marine and deputy sheriff Nathan Waymaker, now working at his cousin's funeral home, is tasked with uncovering the truth about a local preacher's untimely death. (Library Journal)
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Covered With Night
NYU history professor Eustace (1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism) delivers an immersive account of the fallout from the 1722 killing of a Seneca Indian hunter by two white fur traders in Pennsylvania. –(Publisher’s Weekly)
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Just Like Home
Vera Crowder, the protagonist of this superior novel of psychological suspense from Gailey (The Echo Wife), returns to her childhood home, Crowder House, after 12 years to reunite with her dying mother, a fraught visit that reawakens dark memories. (Publisher’s Weekly)
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Slenderman
In this searing account, Hale (Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker: Six Essays) goes beyond the headlines to reveal how and why two 12-year-old girls, who wanted to please a fictional internet bogeyman known as the Slenderman, nearly killed another 12-year-old girl in Waukesha, Wisconsin in 2014. (Publisher)
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Age of Vice
Kapoor launches a trilogy about the wealthy, corrupt Wadia family of New Delhi, linking the stories of playboy Sunny, who wants to supersede his father; cautious servant Ajay, from a shockingly destitute background; and ambitious journalist Neda, who becomes involved with Sunny. (Library Journal)
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Nothing but the Night
Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers—Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb—were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it.
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