2021 Murderino Book Club
The Books we will be reading for our Caprichos 2021 Murderino Book Club
The Stranger Beside Me
By Ann Rule
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend—Ted Bundy—was not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.
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Under the Banner of Heaven
A Story of Violent Faith
By Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.
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My Friend Anna
The True Story of a Fake Heiress
By Rachel DeLoache Williams
Narrated by: Rachel DeLoache Williams
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Sex and the City meets Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City—as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.
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Lost Girls
An Unsolved American Mystery
By Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
New York Times Bestseller • Now a Netflix Film
The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.
“Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.”—Washington Post
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert—after running through the oceanfront... Read more »
Working Stiff
Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
By Judy Melinek, MD & T. J. Mitchell
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation—performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving... Read more »
The Guest List
A Novel
By Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens & Rich Keeble
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
The Guest List
“The wild Irish setting was perfect for this Christie-esque whodunit that will keep you guessing until the end! This is a great listening experience as the cast of talented voice actors help tell the story from varied perspectives.”
Janet, Watermark Books
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
50th Anniversary Edition
Penguin Audio Classics
By Ken Kesey & Robert Faggen
Narrated by: John C. Reilly
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic.
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental... Read more »
Invisible
The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
By Stephen L. Carter
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.
She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s—and without the strategy... Read more »
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Lakewood
A Novel
By Megan Giddings
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Lakewood
“Lena just lost her grandmother, her mother has health problems and to top of off they are having financial problems. Lena takes a mysterious job in hopes help her mother and to pay off bills. Lakewood takes you into a dark world of medical testing where human rights are disregarded. This whole story felt more than real and makes you question how far you would go for to help your family.”
Alexandra, Birdy's Bookstore
Devil’s Knot
The True Story of the West Memphis Three
By Mara Leveritt
Narrated by: Lorna Raver
Length: 15 hours 47 minutes
“Free the West Memphis Three!”—maybe you’ve heard the phrase, but do you know why their story is so alarming? Do you know the facts?
The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal. But after two HBO documentaries called attention to the witch-hunt... Read more »
Furious Hours
Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
By Casey Cep
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Furious Hours
“In Cold Blood and To Kill a Mockingbird kept me up reading all night as a teen, and I can now add Furious Hours to the list of couldn’t-put-it-down tomes. I was enthralled, educated, and awestruck by Casey Cep’s well-researched and masterfully written true-crime account of a rural minister, his lawyer, and his killer. Thankfully, Cep discovered and brought to light what surely could have been Harper Lee’s second bestseller. Now…off to get a good night’s rest!”
Beth Stroh, Viewpoint Books
We Keep the Dead Close
A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
By Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
We Keep the Dead Close
“As much a journey for the writer as it is for the reader, this book solves a murder but leaves us with many unanswered questions. We Keep the Dead Close challenges us to question our assumptions as well as the paths we use to arrive at those assumptions. Delving into the academic culture of Harvard, the misogyny of the 1960s, and the burgeoning women’s rights movement, the story follows several threads, all of which have a significant impact on the life of Jane Britton, whose story is told with empathy, compassion, and five decades of curiosity.”
Camille Kovach, Completely Booked