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Eight Perfect Murders - Book Review

I originally went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a book that I ordered online. As I always do, I decided to browse the store before picking up the book I ordered. I found myself at a table with books that were Buy 1 Get One 50% off. I saw a book and on the cover has a stack of books with a blue tint added to it, and one of the books had blood on the pages. I remember being interested in it before, but I couldn't remember why I didn't buy it when I first saw it months ago.  The book was  Eight Perfect Murders  by Peter Swanson.  __________ Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack—which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”—chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders , Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train , Ira Levin’s Death Trap , A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery , Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought , Jame

The Authenticity Project - Book Review

After I finished reading A Time To Kill by John Grisham, I ran into another reading funk. I found out during my reading funk that I needed to stop trying to read a particular genre. I needed to find a story that sounded interesting. By doing this, I bought some books in a genre that I have not read before, nonfiction. I tell you this because that is how I stumbled upon The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley.  I had just finished Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know About The People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell and moved on to what I thought would be my next read, Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer. I was almost halfway through the book, and I just had to stop. The author's writing style was not for me. I was forcing myself to read the book instead of enjoying it. I had bought Krakauer's other book, Into Thin Air, from Barnes & Noble and decided to take it back.  After returning the book, I decided to roam the store. On a table near the front of the store was Barn