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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
Why do we love true crime? One writer turns the question on herself 🔍
Who it's for
For anyone who binges true crime and sometimes wonders what that says about them.
Uneasy, guilty→Reflective
Feelings it meets
What it is
Journalist Rachel Monroe asks why so many women are drawn to true crime, through four real women: Frances Glessner Lee, who built the "Nutshell Studies" crime-scene dioramas; Alisa Statman, who became absorbed in the Manson murders while living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed; Lori Davis, a landscape architect who fell in love with a convicted murderer and set out to prove his innocence; and Lindsay…
Where to find it
Bookshops, libraries, ebook and audiobook.
Before you start
Heads up: Discussion of a school shooting.
Age: Adult nonfiction (not formally rated)
