True Crime
Every crime tells a story …
In these pages, a magazine intern, kidnapped and brutalized by her ex-boyfriend, struggles to live free from fear; an identity thief encounters a prison guard who knows her better than she knows herself; a young adventurer supports her travels by smuggling pre-Columbian artifacts; a triple homicide devastates a high school swim team; a detective searches for the truth in a he-said-she-said situation. Plus, award-winning journalists investigate the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the unsolved lynching of Claude Neal.
And in an exclusive, in-depth interview, Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and master of the true-crime genre, shares the secrets of making history come to life.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream?
Origami & the Art of Identity Folding
Leviathan
Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: A Fatal Chain of Events Unfolds
Regret
Grave Robber: A Love Story
Apology
Parrish, Rawlings, Hollis, and Flythe, 2008
The Addict
Girl, Fighting
The Death of a Family
Speaking of Ears and Savagery
Origins of a Murder
Spectacle: The Lynching of Claude Neal
An Interview with Erik Larson
ENCOUNTER: Erik Larson
What sort of writer devotes himself to portraying scrupulously the vilest of criminals in works of intensely researched creative nonfiction? You might expect a brooding sort, with an aura of menace and obsession.
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| Weight | 0.6625 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 9 × 6 × 1 in |
