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A HEADLINE-GRABBING MURDER in 1933 Paris, examined in depth, illuminates the culture and politics of the era.
Grade: B PLUS
VIOLETTE NOZIERE: A STORY OF MURDER IN 1930S PARIS
University of California Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Biography, France, History, Non-Fiction, True Crime
INSIDE 2009’S MEGA-SCANDAL of corruption, bribery, Ponzi schemes, money laundering, organ trading in New Jersey.
Grade: B PLUS
THE JERSEY STING: A TRUE STORY OF CROOKED POLS, MONEY-LAUNDERING RABBIS, BLACK MARKET KIDNEYS, AND THE INFORMANT WHO BROUGHT IT ALL DOWN
St. Martin's
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Politics, True Crime
THOUGHTFUL, ELOQUENT, MORALLY complex look at a murder trial; sobering, and exactly opposite to sensationalism.
Grade: B PLUS
IPHIGENIA IN FOREST HILLS: ANATOMY OF A MURDER TRIAL
Yale University Press
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, True Crime
TRUE CRIME SUPERSTAR Ann Rule details a family’s quest to have a suspicious death declared murder, not suicide. SOLID B
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT: THE STRANGE DEATH OF RONDA REYNOLDS AND HER MOTHER’S UNCEASING QUEST FOR THE TRUTH
Free Press
2010
Grade: SOLID B
Tags: Non-Fiction, Solid B Reviews, True Crime