Is True Crime for You?

Submitted by Angel Hill [1] on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:04pm

A Date with Death Did you know there’s a whole genre of books called “True Crime [2]”? How do you know if this genre’s for you? Take this true/false pop quiz:

I never miss an episode of Dateline [3], City Confidential [4], or Nancy Grace [5]. True or False.

I can tell you all about the Tot Mom [6], the Craiglist Killer [7], and Joran van der Sloot [8]. True or False.

It drives me crazy when the newscaster doesn’t give me every detail of latest news story. True or False.

If you answered True to any of the above, come in and take a look at our True Crime area (364.152 in Adult Nonfiction).

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True Crime [10]

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Links:
[1] http://hcpl.net/users/angel-hill
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_crime
[3] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/
[4] http://www.aetv.com/city_confidential/index.jsp
[5] http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/
[6] http://topics.cnn.com/topics/casey_anthony
[7] http://topics.cnn.com/topics/philip_markoff
[8] http://topics.cnn.com/topics/joran_van_der_sloot
[9] http://hcpl.net/taxonomy/term/34
[10] http://hcpl.net/category/tags/true-crime