Started: 12/12/18
Finished: 3/25/19
Year: 1998
Pages: 626
Genre: True Crime
Grade: C
Reason for reading: grabbed off TBR pile
Blurb (from back cover): "With more than 70 chapters on every aspect of crimes and criminals, this vast collection includes subjects as varied as alibis, arson, blackmail, computer crimes, con men, conspiracy theories, dominance, dual personality, headless corpses, hired killers, killer couples, ladykillers, manic messiahs, mass murderers, parent killers, perverts, protection rackets, sabotage, serial killers, stranglers, sleepwalking slayers, train murders, victims and vitals clues.
Opinion: This definitely covers probably every aspect of true crime but the examples/blurbs were short. I would have liked more indepth examples in fewer chapters. Some of the chapter subjects overlapped. I would suggest that anyone who enjoys true crime, take a look at this book.
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Blood on the Chesapeake by Randy Overbeck
Started: 2/25/19
Finished: 3/7/19
Year: 2019
Pages: 400
Genre: Paranormal mystery
Grade: B
Reason for reading: review for MyShelf.com
Blurb (from back cover): "Wilshire, Maryland, a quaint shore town on the Chesapeake, promises Darrell Henshaw a new start in life and a second chance at love. That is, until he learns the town hides an ugly secret. A thirty-year-old murder in the high school. And a frightening ghost stalking his new office. Burned by an earlier encounter with the spirit world, Darrell doesn't want to get involved, but when the desperate host hounds him, he concedes. Assisted by his new love, he follows a trail that leads to the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and even the Ku Klux Klan. Then, when two locals who try to help are murdered, Darrell is forced to decide if he's willing to risk his life-and the life of the woman he loves-to expose the killers of a young man he never knew."
Opinion: Not a bad mystery but the paranormal element is taken too far-unrealistically too far. As someone who has researched ghosts, some of what happens in this book are extreme and way to unrealistic. Outside of that, this was an enjoyable read.
Finished: 3/7/19
Year: 2019
Pages: 400
Genre: Paranormal mystery
Grade: B
Reason for reading: review for MyShelf.com
Blurb (from back cover): "Wilshire, Maryland, a quaint shore town on the Chesapeake, promises Darrell Henshaw a new start in life and a second chance at love. That is, until he learns the town hides an ugly secret. A thirty-year-old murder in the high school. And a frightening ghost stalking his new office. Burned by an earlier encounter with the spirit world, Darrell doesn't want to get involved, but when the desperate host hounds him, he concedes. Assisted by his new love, he follows a trail that leads to the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and even the Ku Klux Klan. Then, when two locals who try to help are murdered, Darrell is forced to decide if he's willing to risk his life-and the life of the woman he loves-to expose the killers of a young man he never knew."
Opinion: Not a bad mystery but the paranormal element is taken too far-unrealistically too far. As someone who has researched ghosts, some of what happens in this book are extreme and way to unrealistic. Outside of that, this was an enjoyable read.
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