Crime Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/crime/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:39:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Crime Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/genres/crime/ 32 32 38398750 Rabbit Heart https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/rabbit-heart/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/rabbit-heart/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:14:10 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18631 But doubting our terror is what we’ve been trained to do. Imagine being eight years old and awakened on what should be a normal school morning by your father and older brother sitting on the side of your bed. They tell you that your mother has been kidnapped and your father cries. This is where […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/09/rabbit-heart/feed/ 5 18631 April Reading Recap https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/april-reading-recap-7/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/april-reading-recap-7/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 07:54:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18387 Is it the year? The authors? Me? Or some depressing combination of all three? I don’t know, but my April reading was as hit or miss as the Seattle weather.   Just when you think you’ve read every horror story about the opioid epidemic there’s more. Prescription for Pain is an investigative look into the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/05/april-reading-recap-7/feed/ 0 18387 In Light of All Darkness https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/in-light-of-all-darkness/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/in-light-of-all-darkness/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:46:33 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17996 The Polly Klaas kidnapping and murder in California was thirty years ago, but is still known today as the event that changed how the criminal justice system responds in child abduction cases. Kim Cross documents the aftermath of the Klaas kidnapping alongside the actions of investigators, police, and the FBI in her new book In […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/11/in-light-of-all-darkness/feed/ 2 17996 The Many Lives of Mama Love https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-many-lives-of-mama-love/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-many-lives-of-mama-love/#comments Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:53:04 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17738 It’s a picture-perfect Saturday in Northern California with soccer parents lining the field and watching their kids play. As the game winds down most mothers go to retrieve their young, but Lara Love hangs back. And surreptitiously lifts cash out of a wallet in one of the handbags left behind in the stands. She moves […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-many-lives-of-mama-love/feed/ 4 17738 The Art Thief by Michael Finkel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-art-thief-by-michael-finkel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-art-thief-by-michael-finkel/#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:47:04 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17718 I love books about art, whether they’re fiction or nonfiction so Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief was an easy reading choice. It’s the true story of a modern day art thief in France and is a heady combination of both fiction and nonfiction in that it’s true, but reads with the pace and plot twists […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/07/the-art-thief-by-michael-finkel/feed/ 4 17718 Deliberate Cruelty https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/#respond Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:26:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17098 I’ve always had a fascination with high society and the people who chronicle it. Fiction like The Swans of Fifth Avenue  and memoirs like Dilettante are some of my favorite reading. In keeping with that theme, but straying from the ‘giving thanks’ aspect of the week, I’m back with a bit of wealthy people behaving badly […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2022/11/deliberate-cruelty/feed/ 0 17098 A Knock at Midnight https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/09/a-knock-at-midnight/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/09/a-knock-at-midnight/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2020 04:25:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14806 If nothing else, 2020 has been my year of more “I had no idea” reading than any other in my adult life. I’ve read fiction and nonfiction on a number of issues for years, but somehow race was never a large part of that reading. Now, like many others in this country, I’ve seen just […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/09/a-knock-at-midnight/feed/ 4 14806 Know My Name by Chanel Miller https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/#comments Fri, 03 Jan 2020 05:57:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13621 Emily Doe was the name given to the young woman sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a Stanford student-athlete in 2015. If that doesn’t ring a bell, this should: he was given a sentence that was offensive in its leniency, inciting an outcry around the country. Know My Name is a memoir written by Chanel Miller. She […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/01/know-my-name-by-chanel-miller/feed/ 6 13621 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/dopesick-dealers-doctors-and-the-drug-company-that-addicted-america/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/dopesick-dealers-doctors-and-the-drug-company-that-addicted-america/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:58:19 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13494 Last week, I left behind heavy nonfiction with Adam Rippon’s memoir, Beautiful on the Outside, but today I’m back with a heavy dose of reality.  Dopesick is Beth Macy’s well-researched and documented rise of opioid addiction in America. Specifically, in the Appalachians—starting with the over-prescribing of high dose Oxycontin to coal miners in the late […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/dopesick-dealers-doctors-and-the-drug-company-that-addicted-america/feed/ 4 13494 The Library Book by Susan Orlean https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/library-book-susan-orlean/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/library-book-susan-orlean/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:36:05 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11946   It’s embarrassing enough to be ignorant about American history, but, as a librarian, to not know about the largest library fire in the country? I’m pretty sure my librarian membership can be revoked for that. Thankfully, Susan Orlean’s new book The Library Book not only remedies my ignorance, but is a reminder of why libraries […]

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