Ripped From The Headlines...

We've all heard the adage…truth is stranger than fiction. But what happens when you mix the two? Writing a novel based on a real life crime? Maybe it provides the separation of a window between the reader and the violence that is more agreeable to our sensibilities. And provides us with a lie we can ourselves...the worst of must be made up right? The dead still have stories to tell.

THE BOOKS…

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

The Shining - Stephen King

Girl A - Abigail Dean

Spilled Milk - K.L. Randis

Lady Joker - Kaoru Takamura

Room - Emma Donaghue

Wicked Girls - Alex Marwood

Never Saw Me Coming - Vera Kurian

Mr. Peanut - Adam Ross

Cross Her Heart - Sarah Pinborough

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt

To Die For - Joyce Maynard

In Cold Blood - Truman Captoe

Executionars Song - Norman Mailer

Little Deaths - Emma Flint

Burial Rites - Hannah Kent

The Christie Affair - Nina DeGramont

11/22/63 - Stephen King