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Sunday Book Review: July 30, 2023 – The On Writing True Crime Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that would interest the compliance professional, the business executive or anyone who might be curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I continue my summer exploration of books on crime. Today, some top books which illustrate the draft of writing true crime.

  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
  • The Shadow of Death by Philip Ginsburg
  • The Wrong Man by James Neff
  • Couple Found Slain by Mikita Brottman

Resource

James Renner: 5 Books That Changed the Way I Write True Crime in CrimeReads.com

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April 9, 2023 – The Crime and History Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, I look at books on the intersection of crime and history.

·      The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, by Erik Larson

·      Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, by Casey Cep

·      The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or The Murder at Road Hill House, by Kate Summerscale

·      American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI, by Kate Winkler Dawson

·      Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann

 Resource

Five Non-Fiction Books that Mix Crime and History by Amit Katwala in Crime Reads

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February 12, 2023 – The True Crime Edition

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today’s edition of the Sunday Book Review, we consider some of the top ethics books which every compliance professional should read in 2023:

·      Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale 

·       Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse

·        Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles 

·       American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower 

Resources

Complete List of Mystery Writers of America 2023 Edgar Nominees in MysteryTribune.com