CrimeReads Book Club will be discussing Daniel Stashower's American Demon - Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper. An Edgar Award Winning Author! Location: The Collegedale Public Library Meeting Room "Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher […]
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two […]
Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination by Mary Haverstick. The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Kill for You, Kill for Me by Steve Cavanagh. For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological thriller about two ordinary women who make a dangerous pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink. One dark evening […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing All is Not Forgiven (Detectives Kenda & Wilson #1) by Joe Kenda. The Homicide Hunter’s riveting debut novel proves that fiction really can be stranger than truth … All Is Not Forgiven is the debut crime novel by television star Joe Kenda, a former homicide detective, whose hit […]
Harrowing, smart, and riotously entertaining, Guilt by Degrees is a thrilling ride through the world of LA courts with the unforgettable Rachel Knight. Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight -- someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera. What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if the truth doesn't matter? After Lucy is found wandering the streets, covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, everyone thinks she is […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose. We will meet at the Greenbriar Cove Club House. Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress? Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Zenith Man by McCracken Poston, Jr. Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating smalltown Southern setting, this is the fascinating true story—sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking—of an idealistic young lawyer determined to free an innocent neurodivergent man accused of murdering the […]
Crime Reads Book Club will be discussing Thunderstruck by Erik Larsen. The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases of all time - Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication. A true story of love, […]
It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field […]