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Unspeakable acts : true tales of crime, murder, deceit, and obsession Cover Image Book

Unspeakable acts : true tales of crime, murder, deceit, and obsession / [edited by] Sarah Weinman ; with an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Weinman, Sarah, (author,, editor.). Dean, Michelle, 1979- (author.). Colloff, Pamela, (author.). Ho, Karen K., (author.). Monroe, Rachel, (author.). Mar, Alex, (author.). Marshall, Sarah, 1988- (author.). Bolin, Alice, (author.). Green, Elon, (author.). Fagone, Jason, (author.). Del Bosque, Melissa, (author.). Smith, Leora, (author.). Eisenberg, Emma Copley, (author.). Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- (writer of introduction.).

Summary:

Curated by the award-winning author of The Real Lolita, this anthology of recent true-crime tales includes Michelle Dean's "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick" and Pamela Colloff's "The Reckoning."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062839886
  • ISBN: 0062839888
  • Physical Description: xix, 396 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Dee Dee wanted her daughter to be sick, Gypsy wanted her mom murdered / Michelle Dean -- Reckoning / Pamela Colloff -- Jennifer Pan's revenge / Karen K. Ho -- Perfect man who wasn't / Rachel Monroe -- Out came the girls / Alex Mar -- End of evil / Sarah Marshall -- Ethical dilemma of highbrow true crime / Alice Bolin -- Lost children of "Runaway Train" / Elon Green -- True crime story behind a 1970s cult feminist film classic / Sarah Weinman -- What bullets do to bodies / Jason Fagone -- Checkpoint nation / Melissa Del Bosque / How a dubious forensic science spread like a virus / Leora Smith -- "I am a girl now," Sage Smith wrote. Then she went missing / Emma Copley Eisenberg.

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Murder > Case studies.
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True crime stories.
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Mars Hill Library 364.15 WEI (Text) 30229101195112 Adult Nonfiction Available -