Just a girl and her books
HELTER SKELTER | Vincent Bugliosi & Curt Gentry 12.17.2001 (first published 1974) | W.W. Norton Company Rating: 5/5 stars Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial. Within these pages he offers the reader a firsthand account of the inner workings to one of the most horrifying cases of the twentieth century. The … Continue reading Book Review: Helter Skelter
MINDHUNTER | John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker 10.24.2017 | Gallery Books (first published in 1995) Rating: 4/5 stars Special Agent John Douglas helped to revolutionize the FBI and how criminal investigations are conducted by becoming an expert in criminal profiling. Douglas made his life’s work out of meeting with, learning about, and understanding serial … Continue reading Book Review: Mindhunter
AMERICAN PREDATOR | Maureen Callahan 07.02.2019 | Viking Rating: 5/5 stars Most people have never heard the name Israel Keyes. He is one of the most meticulous and least publicized serial killers of the 21st century. Keyes was a predator who hunted for victims across the United States. Seemingly taking people at random, he would … Continue reading Book Review: American Predator
BAD BLOOD | John Carreyrou 05.21.2018 | Knopf Publishing Group Rating: 5/5 stars Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes started to make her name known in Silicon Valley at the young age of nineteen. While a student at Stanford she began to promote her idea of a way to revolutionize blood testing. Instead of tubes … Continue reading Book Review: Bad Blood
HUNTING CHARLES MANSON | Lis Wiehl 06.05.2018 | Thomas Nelson Rating: 3/5 stars You’ve likely heard the name Charles Manson, but are you familiar with why he’s so notorious? Lis Wiehl has put together a compilation of archival research and personal interviews, including a glimpse into the Manson Family parole hearings, to provide a factual … Continue reading Book Review: Hunting Charles Manson
THE STRANGER BESIDE ME | Ann Rule 11.06.2018 (first published 08.01.1980) | Gallery Books Rating: 5/5 stars Ann Rule met Ted Bundy in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic where they formed a friendship that would span the rest of Bundy’s life. Rule had no idea that Bundy was hiding a dark secret when they … Continue reading Book Review: The Stranger Beside Me
CHASE DARKNESS WITH ME: HOW ONE TRUE-CRIME WRITER STARTED SOLVING MURDERS | Billy Jensen 04.11.2019 | Audible Studios Rating: 4/5 stars Have you ever read a true crime story or watched something a true crime TV show and thought, I could solve that? Do you enjoy trying to spot the clues that may have been … Continue reading Book Review: Chase Darkness with Me
I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK | Michelle McNamara 02.27.2018 | Harper Rating: 5/5 stars For more than ten years Northern California was haunted by an unknown, violent predator who committed fifty sexual assaults in the area. He then moved south in California and his reign of terror expanded to murder. This man became known … Continue reading Book Review: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
