2021/098: We Keep the Dead Close -- Becky Cooper

2021/098: We Keep the Dead Close -- Becky Cooper

I had deluded myself into thinking that I had some choice in whether or not to pursue her story, not realizing that the truth was that she had already started to seep into the borders of me. [loc. 1400]

I don't often read 'true crime': like Becky Cooper, I feel that 'the culture of true-crime fandom [flattens] crime into entertainment' [loc. 4398]. When I was looking for interesting non-fiction, though, I found this book, and -- perhaps because I'd just emerged from Leigh Bardugo's excellent dark fantasy novel set at Yale, Ninth House -- I was intrigued.

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