#Crime books

[without-ado]

Murder and Mayhem full of crime & horror books l Hay-on-Wye UK

[doomreturn]

[galaxisban-stoppolo]

parents issues

[v1tfrma]

The cool girl speech is always playing in my mind

[pyramidsoul]

Dahmer’s Books Reviews

I decided I could post my personal reviews about Dahmer’s books I’ve read, with a unique review template I created hoping it works well. I hope these can help people who wants to buy Dahmer’s books or just create a discussion with people who read them as well. With this I don’t mean to say my opinion is absolute, tastes are different and I saw people who have different opinions than mines already. I also want to state I’m not a professional at this, everything is amateurish and I manly did this for fun. I’m not even a big reader too. So let’s take it easy, everything is personal! Also: I’m currently reading more, so as I’ll finish the other books I can post the new ones too!

These are all the books I’ve read till now, but more are coming since I have some more few books at home which are waiting. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to start/finish them, but for now I can offer you the most discussed Dahmer books at least.

Books I’m going to do a review next:

The Psych Reports by Taylor James*;

Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders by Anne E Schwartz*;

Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffery Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders by Robert Dvorchak;

The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare by Don Davis.

*the books I’m planning to read next

[kingbookcollector]

Hodder and Stoughton have officially announced that they will be publishing Never Flinch by Stephen King on the 27th May 2025.

This will be available in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.

[mamaalice95]

Reading and donuts 🍩📖

[b5withextrachicken]

how would you hide a body? asking for literary purposes…

[horrorthrillerreviews]

The Perfect Marriage- Jeneva Rose

Pages: 337

Stars: 5/5

This book let me tell you!! I read this in one day because it kept me on the edge of my seat. This was chosen to be the book of the month for August in my book group on FB.

Sarah is a powerful lawyer, and Adam is a struggling writer, the perfect couple... Adam likes to go write at their lake house, but Sarah doesn't know he is having an affair instead. The next morning the police find that his mistress is dead in his lake house. His only hope is his wife.

[without-ado]

Murder & Mayhem l crime & horror l Hay on Wye UK

[thechaoticreader]

Rage Against Publishing

My thoughts on Rage being pulled from publishing and the outrage following.

Rage by Richard Bachman (pen name of Stephen King) is a highly controversial book written by a prolific author which hasn't been published since 1997 due to its subject matter. I see a TON of reviews and essays about how cancel culture got to it and the soft lefties are ruining publishing and I gotta say that I couldn't agree less. If you want to know why this book was taken out of print and Stephen Kings thoughts on the issue please please please read Guns (its on Kindle Unlimited), I'll be referring to it a lot.

Firstly, Stephen King himself asked for it to be pulled from publishing, no one called for its "cancellation" (at least not a significant amount of people), there was little to no public outcry, in fact it was a very niche novel that comparatively very few people even knew about!

On page 29 of Guns, he says "I didn't pull Rage from publication because the law demanded it... I pulled it because in my judgement it might be hurting people, and that made it the responsible thing to do." In my opinion getting mad at the decision to pull Rage shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between literature and society; as well as an apathetic attitude towards gun violence and school shootings. It is absolutely true that media does not create school shooters but it can - and does - inspire those with the inclination to commit violent acts. Rage was found in the lockers, pockets, bookshelves and minds of young people who attempted and/or followed through with domestic terrorism. Did the book cause this? Certainly not. However it happened enough times for King to decide the responsible thing to do was to remove it saying "My book did not break [them]* or turn them into killers; they found something in my book that spoke to them because they were already broken. Yet I did see Rage as a possible accelerant, which is why I pulled it from sale." (Guns, 9)

*I chose to remove the names listed because I believe too much focus and attention is put on the perpetrators and Tumblr has an issue with fetishizing and idolizing school shooters

For those who want to read it, you can, Rage is out there it's just less accessible, especially for young, hurting high schoolers. I agree with Kings decision to remove it and I find it commendable that he saw a pattern of violence in relation to his book and decided to take away a potential catalyst. In the USA school shootings are on the rise and are treated as an unfortunate inevitability and it is so easy for teens to get ahold of weapons and become inspired to use them, so if even one source of inspiration is made less accessible thats good. If I had to choose between this book being easily accessible or one kid deciding not to shoot up their school, I would take the latter without a second thought.

I will write my review of the book and its contents in another post but I'm just so tired of seeing all of the white men bitching about how the sensitive snowflakes cancelled this book. It was never cancelled. After seeing killers taking inspiration, the author decided to stop publishing it. You can still find and read it.

Lastly, for the love of every god to ever exist STOP CALLING THIS BOOK BANNING!!!!! Book banning is a very specific phenomenon that is so so serious and by misusing the term, you're taking away its significance and intentionally or unintentionally harming the cause and the marginalized voices that are at the centre.

[bespectacled-bookwyrm]

I finished Mirror, Mirror yesterday!

It was very much a "meh" book for me. Hopefully the other Twisted Tales are better!

Decided to start a book that's been sitting on my shelf for years: "If She Did It", by Jessica Treadway!

[yourcoffeeguru]

NGAIO MARSH Thriller Crime Paperback Novel Books 5 x Vintage 1980s Bundle LOT || AUtradingpost - ebay

[rouphicc]

A moi. L'histoire d'une de mes folies.

― Donna tart, The Secret History

source : instagram.com

[little-miss-romance]

“Morgan. Killer. I fall more in love with you each time you look my way. And it will be the biggest honor of my life to continue loving you every single day.”