
The Great Brain
by John D. Fitzgerald
MADE-UP
When I opened the store, I was surprised and disappointed to find that only the first three of the original seven Great Brain books are still in print. There may be no kids' books I remember more inte... (Tom)

While the City Slept
by Eli Sanders
TRUE
Some true-crime classics, like In Cold Blood or The Executioner's Song or The Stranger Beside Me, conduct a sort of horrified romance with their charismatic killers. Sanders's new book, which might be... (Tom)

Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
by Dean A. Strang
TRUE
Did you get drawn into the Netflix true-crime binge phenomenon, Making a Murderer? If so, you likely recall Dean Strang, the defense lawyer whose wry, earnest intelligence and "normcore style" have ma... (Tom)
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