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How good. How well written. Thomas Thompson is one of my favourite authors. He was a nonfiction writer who managed to write non fiction as if it were novels. He was so good at making the reader connect with the characters in his books and make them want to know what happened. Make them relate.
My first book I read written by him which was in 2007 and it was Blood and Money. My review alas of that book is not very detailed plus very short. The only interesting thing I wrote is that quote" his writ ...more

Richie: A Father, His Son, and the Ultimate America Tragedy, originally published in 1973, tells the story of an event that occurred in Nassau County (Long Island, NY) in1972. I was not familiar with the case, and True Crime is my “guilty pleasure” genre...
If you are familiar with this story, either from news accounts, the earlier edition of this book, or the TV Movie (spoiler alert!) The Death of Richie, your experience reading this will be different from mine. I was not familiar with the event ...more
If you are familiar with this story, either from news accounts, the earlier edition of this book, or the TV Movie (spoiler alert!) The Death of Richie, your experience reading this will be different from mine. I was not familiar with the event ...more

Jul 24, 2016
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Jan 11, 2017
Unsolved ☕︎ Mystery
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