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I can hear the grainy echos and the high screech of the shifting chairs on the cement floor. The claustrophobic walls of the interview room closing in on the prisoner, yet his lies and manipulations always trying to pick their way out... The Last Stone tells the story of a forty year old disappearance of... Continue Reading →
A story layered in secrets, the poet, Dante, and loss. Loss of sight, family, and innocence. Faced with his own troubles with the law, a young man finds out that his blind father had not been injured in a hunting accident as he was originally told, but in a robbery gone wrong. Charlie's father finally... Continue Reading →
What is the nature of our own obsessions? How might helping others be the impetus to possibly finding our own peace? These questions swirled around my head as I read about J. Reuben Appelman’s personal investigations into the Oakland County Child Killer case in his book The Kill Jar. The OCCK case is a series... Continue Reading →
Marcius’s Wild Escape has the elements of a good true-crime book. The author effectively shows us the escape from every participant's point of view: law enforcement, the criminals, the politicians, and the community. The pacing and organization of the book is well thought out. Marcius quickly sets up the the men's escape, and then their... Continue Reading →
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