Book recommendations?

[nursewife]

Thanks nicbreeful for your last selections. I really like true crime, and how notorious criminals ended up the way they did. Anyone more suggestions?

[nursewife]

@gypsy you seem into that kind of stuff too. Any suggestions?

[tacokick]

Do you read Ann Rule?

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Have you read Devil in the White City? That's the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

[pantsparty]

I really enjoyed Devil In The White City, too.

[nursewife]

That will be my next book to download! I haven't heard of Ann Rule as its only been in the last year I have time to read for fun instead of torturous nursing theory texts. Can't wait to start something new!

[litebright]

This isn't exactly notorious criminals, but I just finished High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed. It's all about cons, thefts and shady guides/equipment getting people killed/abandoned high on the mountain because of the huge amount of money & to some extent, fame that is involved.

I went on a mountaineering binge this weekend and read The Climb (the 1996 disaster covered in Into Thin Air from another guide's perspective), No Way Down (disaster on K2), and High Crimes. It was really interesting to read all three of those in a row and get a sense of how much climbing has changed and what a racket is going on in the Himalayas.

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Columbine. I could not put it down.

[Deleted]

I'm going to have to add these to my reading list.

I picked up Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar children when I was in the airport last week. If anyone is into old photos, it's a pretty cool book as the story has been woven around some really weird old photos. I know it's young adult, but it was good.

[BlackCanary]

Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt (about Josef Fritzl)
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" by Harold Schechter
The Trials of Maria Barbella: The True Story of a 19th-Century Crime of Passion by Idanna Pucci
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 
Tacoma Confidential: A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life by Paul LaRosa

[BlackCanary]

Jun 24, 2013 12:39:17 GMT -5 vino said:

Columbine. I could not put it down.

I liked this, I cried a couple of times though.

[smock]

I haven't read it yet, but I've heard good things about The Monster of Florence by Preston and Spezi, about a serial killer who murdered a bunch of young couples in Florence between the 1960s-80s and has never been caught.