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k2reader April 6, 2024

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Grover Press, #partner, for the finished copy of Slenderman in exchange for my honest review. I purchased the audiobook for my collection. Publisher: Grover Press Published: August 16, 2022 Summary: The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet The Slenderman stabbing of May 31, 2014, in the…

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k2reader February 11, 2024

The Amish Wife by Gregg Olsen #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and Jennifer Musico, PR / Thomas Mercer #partner, for the finished copy of The Amish Wife in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer / Brilliance Audio Published: January 1, 2024 Summary: The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in…

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k2reader December 11, 2023

Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Hachette Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Trail of the Lost in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Books / Hachette Audio Published: August 22, 2023 Summary: From an award-winning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure follows the author’s quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up…

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k2reader November 26, 2023

Lay Then to Rest by Laurah Norton #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Hachette Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Lay Them to Rest in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Books / Hachette Audio Published: October 17, 2023 Summary: A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman named “Ina Jane Doe,” exploring the rapidly evolving…

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k2reader November 13, 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann #bookreview

Thank you Doubleday #partner, for the finished copy of Killers of the Flower Moon in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Doubleday (Paperback movie tie-in version – Vintage) Published: October 10, 2023 (Originally Published April 2017) Summary: In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles,…

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k2reader October 2, 2023

Kill Show by Daniel Sweren-Becker #bookreview

Thank you Harper Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Kill Show in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Harper Published: October 3, 2023 Summary: When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national obsession—in this thoughtful and addictively readable novel that offers a fresh and provocative take on whodunits and true crime. Sara Parcell disappeared without a trace on a crisp April morning in…

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k2reader August 17, 2023

All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press, #partner, for an advanced copy of All the Living and the Dead in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan Audio Published: April 12, 2022 Summary: A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people―morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners―who work in it and what led them there. We…

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k2reader August 4, 2023

Broadway Butterfly by Sara DiVello #bookreview

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Published: August 1, 2023 Summary: New York in the Roaring Twenties—a riveting true-crime novel, based on one of the most notorious unsolved murders of the era, where power, politics, and secrets conspire to bury the truth. Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune…

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k2reader July 24, 2023

Searching for Savanna by Mona Gable #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio for the ALC and Atria Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Searching for Savanna in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Atria Books / Simon & Schuster ALC Published: April 25, 2023 Summary: A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and…

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k2reader March 25, 2023

Memoir Madness 2023: 4 mini-reviews #memoirs #bookreviews #audiobooks

This month I participated in MEMOIR MADNESS 2023 – a challenge over on Instagram where we focused on reading memoirs throughout the month of March. It’s a little play on March Madness and I have loved participating in this. I love reading memoirs – it’s one of my favorite forms of nonfiction that I try to read throughout the year. So far, I’ve read 3 this month, but you are…

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k2reader January 24, 2023

The Science of Murder by Carla Valentine #bookreview #nonfiction

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Sourcebooks Published: May 31, 2022 Summary: Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie’s novels Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, and nearly every story she ever wrote involves one―or, more commonly, several―dead bodies. And the cause of death, the motives behind violent crimes, the clues that inevitably are left behind, and the people who put…

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k2reader January 19, 2023

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks #bookreview

Thank you Minotaur Books/Netgalley #partner, for the advanced copy of The Lindbergh Nanny in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Minotaur Books Published: November 15, 2022 Summary: Mariah Fredericks’s The Lindbergh Nanny is powerful, propulsive novel about America’s most notorious kidnapping through the eyes of the woman who found herself at the heart of this deadly crime. When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his…

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k2reader December 6, 2022

When a Killer Calls by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you William Morrow Books, #partner for the finished copy of When a Killer Calls in exchange for my honest review. I borrowed the audiobook from the library. Publisher: Dey Street Books / Harper Audio Published: February 1, 2022 Summary: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix…

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k2reader November 27, 2022

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe #bookreview #nonfiction

I purchased this book for my own personal collection. Publisher: Doubleday Books Published: June 28, 2022 Summary: From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his…

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k2reader November 22, 2022

Con/Artist by Tony Tetro #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Hachette Books, #partner, for the advanced copy of Con/Artist in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Hachette Books / Hachette Audio Published: November 22, 2022 Summary: The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art…

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k2reader November 2, 2022

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession Edited by Sarah Weinman #bookreview #audiobook

I purchased both this book and audiobook for my own collection. Publisher: Ecco / Harper Audio Published: July 28, 2020 Summary: A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita. The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be…

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k2reader August 18, 2022

All the Lies They Did Not Tell by Pablo Trincia #blogtour #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Brilliance Audio for the ALC and @OTRPR & Amazon Crossing, #partner, for the advanced copy of All the Lies They Did Not Tell in exchange for my honest review. Today, I’m so happy to be a tour stop on the blog tour for All the Lies They Did Not Tell. Thank you OTRPR for inviting me to participate. Publisher: Amazon Crossing / Brilliance Audio Published:…

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k2reader July 18, 2022

Bad City by Paul Pringle #bookreview

Thank you Celadon Books, #partner, for the finished copy of Bad City in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Celadon Books Published: July 19, 2022 Summary: “Pringle’s fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism… when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability.” —The New York Times For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating…

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k2reader June 23, 2022

When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile #bookreview #audiobook

Thank you Hachette Audio for the ALC and @NovelSuspects & Twelve, #partner, for the finished copy of When The Moon Turns to Blood in exchange for my honest review. Publisher: Twelve Books / Hachette Audio Published: June 21, 2022 Summary: WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious deaths surrounding former beauty queen Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger…

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k2reader April 26, 2022

Review: Unmasked by Paul Holes

Publisher: Celadon Books Published: April 26, 2022 Source: ARC Paperback via Publisher Summary: From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is happening to…

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