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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Murder or Mistake? Author: John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is the story of a rich, eccentric man; a vicious murder; a voodoo priestess; a sassy drag queen; a would-be-poisoner; a lovable squatter; and a bunch of snobby rich people in old town Savannah, Georgia, who love to talk about a good scandal. The surprising thing about this story – which I honestly thought was a novel until I sat down to finally write this review – is that it is a true story. This explains some of its eccentricities, it’s definite lack of focus and magazine [...]

Frances Carden2022-11-14T18:17:12-07:00November 14th, 2022|Tags: book review, crime, fiction, read, reading, true crime|

Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson

Behind the Scenes of the Sensational Trial Author: Jeffrey Toobin One of my earliest memories is of my parents watching the police chase O.J. Simpson in his white Bronco on TV and thinking, “what a weird chase, it’s so slow.” But that was pretty much it, until years later the case was brought up again with OJ’s proposition to publish his supposedly hypothetical confession in the form of a book named If I Did It. I was older by that time and more than a little shocked that a man nearly convicted of murder would return to the scene, as it [...]

Frances Carden2022-08-17T18:23:11-07:00August 17th, 2022|Tags: book review, non-fiction, read, reading, true crime|

If I Did It

He Totally Did It . . . Author: OJ Simpson Time for some honesty. I think we have all kind of wanted to read If I Did It since the rumors circulated that the man who allegedly killed Nicole Simpson and got away with it was going to publish a book about his crime and to thumb his nose at the justice system that let him walk. I think most of us had the guttural reaction of repulsion and disgust, but that inner rubbernecker in us all wanted to know just what OJ was finally willing to say about the night [...]

Frances Carden2022-08-14T12:34:28-07:00August 14th, 2022|Tags: book review, If I Did It, murder, OJ, OJ Simpson, read, reading, trial, true crime|