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Man No One Believed, The

A Historically Important But Boring Reading Author: Joshua Sharpe True crime has been my guilty pleasure for the last several years. I started with the classic: the formidable Ann Rule. From there, I grew to read any and everything and even branched out into the world of podcasts with Bailey Sariaen’s addicting Murder, Mystery, and Makeup. When Book of the Month listed The Man No One Believed as one of its August picks, highlighting the explosive nature of true crime researching in freeing a man unjustly held for 15 years, I knew I had to read it. The surprisingly slim Man [...]

Frances Carden2026-01-26T20:11:16-07:00January 26th, 2026|Tags: book review, botm, Georgia church murders, Joshua Sharpe, read, reading, Swain, true crime|

Secrets in the Cellar

The True Story of Elisabeth Fritzl Author: John Glatt I came to the true story of Elisabeth Fritzl, an 18-year-old Austrian woman who was raped and imprisoned in a secret cellar for twenty-four years by her own father, through Bailey Sarian’s Murder, Mystery, and Makeup podcast. I was in equal parts shocked and horrified – both by the crime itself and the fact that no one else in the house, including Elisabeth’s mother, siblings, and over 100 boarders over two decades ever noticed anything strange. Elisabeth’s father and captor, Josef Fritzl, spent years building the secret cellar, moving tons of rock [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-22T14:32:17-07:00December 22nd, 2025|Tags: book review, Elisabeth Fritzl, read, reading, true crime|

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases

A Collection of Miscellaneous Cases Author: Ann Rule Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases is a very loosely themed collection composed mostly of cold cases and random rape / murder stories. The idea, ostensibly, is to focus on cases that hit close to home, but the reality is more of a hodge-podge of tales that fit more under a “miscellaneous” heading than anything else. The first two chapters are novella length, taking up most of the real estate in the book. Neither, however, are especially satisfying, leaving more unanswered and speculated upon than revealed. The first chapter concentrates on [...]

Frances Carden2025-12-12T20:58:29-07:00December 12th, 2025|Tags: ann rule, book review, nonfiction, read, reading, true crime|