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The Anatomy of Motive

Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 1:25 AMNo Comment

Good for true-crime junkies, without as much of the self-promotion Douglas tends to indulge in elsewhere — with the exception of The Cases That Haunt Us, which I highly recommend, I’ve found his other books exceedingly self-congratulatory, and therefore nearly unreadably boring. Olshaker’s prose is fabulous, though — smooth, direct, proofread thoroughly, not too many exclamation points like you get in a lot of these true-crime tomes.

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