#crime books

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Murder and Mayhem full of crime & horror books l Hay-on-Wye UK

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[v1tfrma]

The cool girl speech is always playing in my mind

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Dahmer’s Books Reviews

I decided I could post my personal reviews about Dahmer’s books I’ve read, with a unique review template I created hoping it works well. I hope these can help people who wants to buy Dahmer’s books or just create a discussion with people who read them as well. With this I don’t mean to say my opinion is absolute, tastes are different and I saw people who have different opinions than mines already. I also want to state I’m not a professional at this, everything is amateurish and I manly did this for fun. I’m not even a big reader too. So let’s take it easy, everything is personal! Also: I’m currently reading more, so as I’ll finish the other books I can post the new ones too!

These are all the books I’ve read till now, but more are coming since I have some more few books at home which are waiting. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to start/finish them, but for now I can offer you the most discussed Dahmer books at least.

Books I’m going to do a review next:

The Psych Reports by Taylor James*;

Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders by Anne E Schwartz*;

Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffery Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders by Robert Dvorchak;

The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare by Don Davis.

*the books I’m planning to read next

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Stephen King’s Joyland (Illustrated Edition) cover by Glen Orbik

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NGAIO MARSH Thriller Crime Paperback Novel Books 5 x Vintage 1980s Bundle LOT || AUtradingpost - ebay

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A moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.

― Donna tart, The Secret History

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Murder in the Family by Cara Hunter

Rating: 4/5 Stars

Page Length: 466

This is a Crime, Mystery Detective, Psychological Thriller that takes you back to 2003 to the murder of Luke Ryder. He was murdered inside the house with his stepchildren. 20 years later the youngest child takes on a crime show with specialists to try to solve this cold case. You go alongside trying to solve this murder, with new groundbreaking evidence that comes to the surface. Can you solve the murder?

[sapphicbookclub]

Hey

Know any new adult crime books with wlw relationships? Would take a podcast as well?

Yup! You can check the ones I previously posted here.

As for crime podcasts, maybe some of our followers can help out?

[queerbookgeek]

Firewatching & Nighthawking by Russ Thomas.

I finished Firewatching at the beginning of the year, so will go over it now before I start Nighthawking. 

'A body is found bricked into the walls of a house from the state of the hands its clear he was buried alive, that he tried to claw his way out before he died. The victim is quickly linked to an old missing persons case and DS Adam Tyler is called. 

But Tyler discovers that he has a connection to the case that hopelessly compromises him. With a brutal sadistic murder to unpick, Tyler must move carefully to discover the truth, without destroying the case or himself.

Meanwhile, someone in the city knows exactly what happened to the body. Someone is watching Adam closely. Someone with an unhealthy affinity for fire.'

Overall I liked it, enough to go on and buy the second one anyway. I've never actually read a crime thriller before but I had been given it for christmas and thought I would give it a go.

It mostly follows 4 different perspectives. Each chapter is laid out as a day during the investigation and at the start of each there is a blog entry from an arsonist.

The most prominent perspective is of course DS Adam Tyler as he trys to solve a murder six years after it took place.

Adam doesn't really work well with others but is assigned to work with DI Doggett and his team to investigate the murder. I enjoyed Adam’s character, he is pretty clueless as to what other people are thinking and feeling socially and it felt pretty relatable. And also kind of funny to read the contrast to how observant he is during an investigation. Adam is also gay and deals with a fair amount of homophobia from other members of the police force, to me it felt like it was dealt with well and in a way that doesn't bog down the story but works within the narrative to be realistic.

There are also some parts following Constable Rabbini, a young police constable, who is on the team working the investigation, who wants to be a detective.

To me the most notable though was the perspective of Lily an elderly woman who lives near the murder scene with her partner Edna. Lily starts receiving black mail notes but can't remember what she did, only that it was something bad. Obviously this was pretty emotional to read but it was an interesting take rather than just following along the investigation alone.

Each book is pretty much a stand alone but continuing to follow DS Tyler. Russ Thomas is also working on a third book. 

Obviously this deals with some pretty dark and potentially triggering subject matter and I would recommend looking up trigger warnings for each beforehand. 

Going to Start Nighthawking now and will be back in a couple of day with my thoughts 🏳️‍🌈

[without-ado]

Murder & Mayhem l crime & horror l Hay on Wye UK

[etherealworldofmine]

Agatha Christie's books aesthetic

I love her crime stories sm because it's old- fashioned and irreplaceable.

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Appealing to the other girls

When it comes to the North American comics industry’s woes, I feel some of it has to do with appealing so much to a certain audience’s taste to the point where it’s going to be real hard trying out something else without experiencing backlash. Some of the problem might have to do with how superhero-centric the print sector of the North American comics industry is, it might be changing for the better when it comes to webcomics. But I don’t think it’s substantial enough to attract anybody else who would be more interested in anything else that has little to do with superheroes at the very least, though you’d have to hire more people who’re interested in those kinds of stories and topics.

Maybe publishers like DC and Marvel are trying their hardest to do what I suggested, the best they can do about it given they don’t want to alienate their longtime readers. But when it comes to some readers not getting to read the other kinds of stories they want to read, it needn’t to be genre fiction as it could involve stories about say dogs harassing wildlife, church cats or garment workers. Though unfortunately whatever stories that focus on any of these subject matters are likely to be really rare, at worst they might as well be so nonexistent that this is likely why readers who’d like to find the stories they’d like to read end up reading something else altogether.

I’m projecting my preferences here but you should know where I’m coming from, since I don’t read comics that often and I actually tend to read a lot of nonfiction. Nonfiction that’s based on the things I like reading and want to read myself, but that’s to give you an idea of how my reading preferences are pretty underrepresented in comics. This is likely true for other female readers and any other reader in general, where their own reading preferences are also very underrepresented. It’s like if you have a lot of comic book stories involving colourful battles and preternatural abilities deployed in them, but not enough stories that involve criminal investigation that’s going to alienate those who’d be interested in that subject matter.

It’s no different from what I experience where there’s not a lot of comics that I can think of that focuses on dog predation on wildlife, despite making decent appearances in nonfiction (both news reports and academic studies). The one fictional example that I can think of that focuses on this, or at least close to it, would be Watership Down and even then it’s an animated movie that’s adapted from a prose novel. Even if this is a subject matter that has important implications for conservation, in that dog owners need to be more careful around their pets because they could easily endanger a vulnerable species at any point, it’s not a subject matter that I could easily find in comics the way I would with nonfiction sources.

There are actually instances of publishers like DC and Marvel using professionals outside of the comics geek circles to write comics, most notably people like Ian Rankin and Denise Mina. But when it comes to the North American comics industry being mostly focused on providing genre fiction, particularly the speculative variety, it’s going to alienate everybody else who’re interested in something else to read. I believe if DC and Marvel were sincere in attracting other readers, they should be churning out more magazines and stories like Gotham Central. Gotham Central could easily be the one DC comic to lure in crime fiction readers with, since what the story’s about is familiar territory to them.

Both DC and Marvel did have a habit of publishing stories outside of the DC and Marvel universes, they still do to some extent but much of it’s focused on well-established franchises rather than publishing stories that would interest other readers. Especially these days where it’s easier to do comics based on either Marvel, DC or any one of the other established brands within the Warner Bros and Disney corporations, this is pretty much why Marvel publishes Star Wars comics and more recently Alien comics too. But not something like doing comics adaptations of something like Jemima Shore, though somebody else has done the same for Nancy Drew in fairness.

You could say that a character like Jemima Shore is too obscure to get an audience in comics, but then again Adam Dagliesh is better known than her and he himself hasn’t starred in any comics adaptation that I know of. So the real problem lies with how North American publishers generally pander more to speculative fiction enthusiasts a lot and not anybody else who want to read something else in comics, it could be something like everyday life but also crime fiction or cats and sailors. It could also involve what’s like working in dressmaking that while there are comics that do revolve around it, it’s also unfortunately rare if it does exist at all and likely the same with sailors and cats. So this is why the North American comics industry has difficulty attracting different readers.

The North American comics industry is almost too focused on satiating the speculative fiction enthusiast’s tastes without regarding the reading tastes of other people, including those who may not be interested in the fantastical to begin with. While a compromise is doable, I don’t think it’s going to be easy publishing other stories without hiring writers who’re interested in anything else to create those for like-minded people. But that would mean those kinds of people, both as writers and readers, are very underrepresented. So underrepresented in the comics industry that they might as well not exist, so it’s easier to cater to speculative fiction enthusiasts this way.

[hobbieswithhobbit]

Hi! So, after looking at Spotify Wrapped and getting the notification for my Goodreads' Year in Books, I decided to create some graphics looking back at my Year in Books. Here they are!

What do we think?

(Info: The only app I've used to create these graphics is Canva, with data taken from my Goodreads and Storygraph. This work is original.)

[imkindanerdy]

So yall. I'm looking for book recommendations. I have a preference toward young adult fiction, dystopia books (like the Hunger Games), mental health books, and crime/mystery books (like Sherlock Holmes). What books do yall recommend?

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I'm back. 🖤