A collection of ten crimes committed in Alaska as told by reporter Tom Brennan. I picked this one up while visiting Alaska at a rest stop near Nenana and I saved it for my #truecrimetober reading.

I enjoyed reading this one. It’s short and it only took me around a week to finish just because I was reading other books. This is a quick read about murderers that you may not have heard of.

Each chapter is a different crime and Tom Brennan’s research is great for each one. If you’re looking for a quick true crime read, I recommend this one!

I wanted to not like this book. You give me an acclaimed book that everyone loves with an unlikeable character and I’ll say I won’t like her.

However, the last 1/3 of the book redeemed Eleanor in my eyes, but if you absolutely had unlikeable characters, this is not for you.

In simple terms: this book was like a bulldozer of emotions. It gutted me. It made me cry. It should be required reading in high school.

If you’re going to read this, have a box of tissues ready.

Garrett Graff was able to hundreds of testimonies for this amazing tribute and his incredible work deserves to be noticed. He truly let the survivors, their families, and political staff speak for themselves and share their stories of what happened September 11,2001 and the days, months, and years following.

Particular parts that made me cry: The Author’s Note, the first section, “Aboard the International Space Station”, the section “The 9/11 Generation”, and within the epilogue when “the firefighters of Ladder 6 served as pallbearers at the funeral of Josephine Harris, who had died at 69, nearly 10 years after all of them had been trapped together in Stairwell B.”

Who needs to read this? Everyone.

I truly believe this book needs to become required reading for high school seniors. We’ve now come to the poking in time when high school seniors were not alive at the time of 9/11 and this is such an amazing compilation of everything that happened that day.

I remember where I was that day. I was 5 years old and in kindergarten. Back then it was still half day. I don’t remember how I got home that day, but I do remember her watching the news all day long. It’s one of the first memories I have of my 23 years.

Thank you Morgan at Avid Reader Press for this copy. I truly enjoyed this emotional roller coaster.

What a ride!!

I’m not a huge YA reader, but I LOVED this. Just enough science fiction (cloning) and enough campus drama to make it a book that had me hook, line, and sinker.

American Predator is a true crime novel with details collected by Maureen Callahan in the case of Israel Keyes.

I had first heard about Israel Keyes from an episode of some true crime show on Oxygen a few years ago and that episode left me wondering just how many people Keyes killed. People are likening him to a recent Ted Bundy.

The case that was ultimately his downfall, the kidnapping and murder of Samantha Koenig in Anchorage opened up a can of worms so to speak.

How many people did Keyes kill besides Samantha and the Currier family? Did he kill those two young girls in Washington?

Could he be connected to the disappearance of Indiana University student Lauren Spierer? I certainly believe there could be some connection there.

Did the FBI make a deal with Keyes so that barely any information of his crimes would be released to the public? I wouldn’t doubt it and that’s probably why many think that this book doesn’t have enough details or that it came out too soon. If the FBI made a deal with Keyes, that would be an explanation to the lack of released information.

Above all: I think this case shines light on a huge problem in America, the lack of communication between counties and between states when it comes to cases of missing and murdered people. Perhaps if there was more communication, more cases could be solved and perhaps more could be linked to Keyes.

Overall, American Predator left me with more questions than what I went in with, but I think that’s the point of a good true crime book.

An well written and a well narrated story of a woman who smashed codes, but started out in Huntington, IN just thirty six miles down the road.

Her story started in Huntington, moved to Ohio, then onto Michigan, Illinois, and finally Washington D.C. Her story may have been overshadowed by her husband at first, but she is finally getting the recognition she deserves in her code breaking of communications between bootleggers during the Prohibition and between the Nazies in South American during World War II.

Pick it up and give it a read or a listen. Cassandra Campbell narrates and you may remember her and love her from her narration of Lilac Girls and Everything I Never Told You.

Loved it! Only complaint is there should've been an opportunity for Margaret to talk to the cops or something, have some charges put onto Chip?

Listened to the audiobook and I loved it.

I’m giving Whisper Network four stars after being surprised by the twist at the end.

I can see why a lot of people DNF because the beginning of the book was hard to get through and the prose of book could be annoying to read at times. I did read an ARC version of the book, so I’m not sure if chapter layout changed with the final version.

Whisper Network follows three friends that are corporate lawyers for a fitness clothing company, Sloane, Grace, and Ardie while the navigate the change that could be coming to their company after the death of their CEO. Enter Katharine, a new hire by the General Counsel, and Rosalita, a woman who has been working on the cleaning crew for the company for nine years. Both of these women will have a big impact with deposition proceedings and police investigations. All five of these women are connected to Ames, the general counsel, in different ways.

Whisper Network gets down to the gritty details of sexual harassment in the corporate field, as well as in a middle school (heart breaking). With women out to make sure a guy a with a history to sexual harassment and assault doesn’t make up the next of the company ladder, will they make sure it doesn’t happen?

Another thing addressed that is very timely with current American culture: Men think that the women are out to ruin men’s lives by telling their stories of sexual assault and some women think the women overstep their boundaries to get ahead.

TW: Sexual Assault and Suicide