Sometimes I'll read a book and I'll have no words to describe it - DOC: THE RAPE OF THE TOWN OF LOVELL is one of those books. I've read a lot of true crime but this is my first book by Jack Olsen, but it will not be my last. Olsen is one of the few true crime writers who truly approaches the genr...
Oh, shit! I don't usually read these 'true crime' bks for a slew of reasons. &, now, here I am reviewing them. I'm severely disturbed by knowing about these people b/c I'm hyper-aware that they're really HERE, they're really w/ us, AND they're inside US too. I'm sickened by the people who vic...
You may wonder why I would give five stars to a book I didn't finish--nor am likely to finish any time soon.Jack Olsen, who died in 2002 at the age of 77, was much more than a crime writer. He was a gifted and insightful psychological analyst who might have been a neuroscientist in another life. ...
Jack Olsen's true account, traces the causes of the tragic night in August 1967 when two separate and unrelated campers, a distance apart, were savagely mangled and killed by enraged bears.
team. He made up in strength what he lacked in finesse, won a few matches, and earned his letter. Teammates proudly wore the big “S” on their hundred-dollar blue-and-gold lettermen’s jackets, but he saved his money. His girlfriend knew he was a letterman, and he didn’t care what the other kids th...
At night, when other parts of Houston sparkle and hum, The Heights is dark and silent under its canopy of gnarled and twisted trees, the streetlights at each corner blotted by leaves. The rare pedestrian walks in blackness, crossing under the soft blue glow of a light and then passing back into d...