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Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

eccoan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xix, 396 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Murder--Case studies.
Crime--Case studies.
Criminals--Case studies.
True crime stories.

Other Authors:

Weinman, Sarah, editor. editor.
Dean, Michelle, 1979- author.
Colloff, Pamela, author.
Monroe, Rachel, author.
Mar, Alex, author.
Bolin, Alice, author.
Fagone, Jason, author.
Del Bosque, Melissa, author.
Eisenberg, Emma Copley, author.
Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976- writer of introduction.

Contents:

"I am a girl now," Sage Smith wrote. Then she went missing / Emma Copley Eisenberg. 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.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0062839888
9780062839886

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1148154153

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KAPF566 -- Keokuk Public Library (Keokuk)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

WMPC185 -- Marcus Public Library (Marcus)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)