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Unspeakable Acts

Unspeakable Acts

True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
EssaysTrue Crime
Pages
416
Published
2020
Language
English

Synopsis

This collection features thirteen recent true crime stories from leading journalists and crime chroniclers. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, the book explores a broad range of true crime writing. It also reflects on why these stories hold such a strong appeal for modern readers.

Prose complexity
7/10

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DarkMysteriousInformativeIntellectual

Genres

Essays True Crime Crime

Authors

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Patrick Radden Keefe

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, as well as two other books: The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, and Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping. He started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written articles about the chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain, the...

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Sarah Weinman

Sarah Weinman is an expert on true crime, known for her investigative non-fiction. She wrote The Real Lolita and Unspeakable Acts, and also edited the anthology Inherit the Dead.

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