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Unspeakable acts : true tales of crime, murder, deceit, and obsession
Title:
Unspeakable acts : true tales of crime, murder, deceit, and obsession
Author:
Weinman, Sarah, author, editor.
ISBN:
9780062839886
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xix, 396 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Dee Dee wanted her daughter to be sick, Gypsy wanted her mom murdered / Reckoning / Jennifer Pan's revenge / Perfect man who wasn't / Out came the girls / End of evil / Ethical dilemma of highbrow true crime / Lost children of "Runaway Train" / True crime story behind a 1970s cult feminist film classic / What bullets do to bodies / Checkpoint nation / "I am a girl now," Sage Smith wrote. Then she went missing
Abstract:
"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" -- from publisher.