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♥ Marlene♥
Oct 10, 2016 rated it it was amazing


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
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Stephanie
Apr 22, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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
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Mar 03, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Jul 24, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Melissa
Jul 09, 2019 rated it really liked it
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Dawn
Nov 10, 2019 marked it as to-read
Marquita
Jul 13, 2023 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
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Sep 03, 2025 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Sharon
Oct 17, 2024 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition