Little Deaths, by Emma Flint

Shelf Indulgence review

Although set in a time well before social media as we know it today, this Shelf Indulgence subject demonstrates the power of the media to taint and condemn in criminal investigations. It’s a fictional tale inspired by the notorious real-life story of Alice Crimmins, whose two children vanished from their locked bedroom in the NYC Queens rental apartment, in July 1965, and were later found dead. In a trial by media, their mother, an attractive and sexually active wo...