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  Introducing Myself

  Hi everybody, I've been reading true crime since I was 16. My first book was "Helter Skelter" which is still one of my favorites. My others are "The Strange Beside Me" and "In Cold Blood". I love all genres except for scifi and go through true crime phases, where it's all I read for months. Just wanted to say hi:-)
  Karen

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  koreen56 

  Hi Karen. Nice to meet you. Those books are certainly some of the classic TC's. I hope you meet lots of new authors here.

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    Karen J 

    Thanks Koreen. I hope to hear about other good authors too. I've read a lot of true crime and some of it is forgettable, you know the ones that are rushed to print so fast...

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  SouthWestZippy 

  Hello and welcome Karen.
  Helter Skelter and In Cold Blood are on my plan to read list. I think I have read both of them before I started a read list. *sigh* I am getting old. LOL
  Ok The stranger beside is that by Ann Rule?
  Zippy

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    Karen J 

    Hi Zippy, You're right, it's written by Rule.

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    Judy F 

    Hi Zippy:
    I am new to this group. My name is Judy. How was Helter Skelter. Yes The Stranger Beside Me is by Ann Rule. What true crime books have you read? Please write back. My email address is judyroseemily@yahoo.com. Sincerely, Judy

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    SouthWestZippy 

    Hello Judy welcome to the group.
    
    I read Helter Skelter so long ago I just can't tell you if I love, hate or liked it. I have also read other books about the same subject and watched many stories about the subject soooooo that being said I can't tell if what I know about the subject came the book or not. I am going to reread it, someday. I have one longgggggg list of books to read.
    Crime books I have read. I have read all of Gregg Olsen true crime books. All good. I use tags so if you go click to my shelf and click on True crime you will see the other TC books I have read. I like older cases.

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  Rotten Fifteener 

  I got started with "Helter Skelter," too. It was a great introduction into the true crime genre. Just recently, I finished "The Stranger Beside Me" and thought it was wonderful. I haven't read "In Cold Blood," but oh, how I want to. Definitely high up on my TBR list.

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    koreen56 

    Welcome Rotten. Those are all good books. One of my first ones was A Death In White Bear Lake and also In Cold Blood.

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    SouthWestZippy 

    Hello and Welcome Rotten.
    I read Helter Skelter a long time ago so I am going to reread it.
    
    I have a bad habit of adding and adding books and then when I try to decide on what to read next I can't. I have been trying to find a system. *sigh*

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  holliwood1367 

  Hello everyone! I'm also new to Shelfari. I have been reading true crime since I was in high school. I'm currently reading Twisted Triangle by Caitlin Rother.

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    koreen56 

    Welcome Holliwood! Make yourself at home here. Let us know how you liked the book.

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    Karen J 

    Caitlin Rother's book about Kristin Rossum "Poisoned Love" was a good one. I'm curious to know how a TC involving Patricia Cornwell gets treated.
    
    Welcome!

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    SouthWestZippy 

    Hello and welcome Holliwood
    I added both Twisted Triangle and Poisoned Love, they look interesting.

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    koreen56 

    I'm adding them too. Thanks for bringing them to our attention.

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    holliwood1367 

    Thanks for the warm welcome! I finished Twisted Triangle last night. It was OK, but it was easy to read. It think the author treated Patricia Cornwell well, even though the title was a little misleading. There wasn't really much of a "triangle" because Cornwell and the victim were only together a few times before they broke it off.

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    Judy F 

    Hello Holliwood1367: I am also new to Shelfari. How is Twisted Triangle? What other true crime books have you read. My email address is judyroseemily@yahoo.com Please write back. Sincerely, Judy

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  Tenia F 

  Hi welcome! I'm Tenia. I just finished reading Helter Skelter for another groups challenge and loved it.

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    Scarlett 

    Welcome to all the new people!
    
    I still have "Helter Skelter" in my stacks. One of these days . . . .

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  angel 

  WELCOME, MY SISTER, HAPPY READING

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    Suzi R 

    Hi, I just found this group. I am currently reading Murder in the Adirondacks, it occurred in the early 1900's. It has been a very interesting read. I also have read a lot of Ann Rule, I think my first true crime was by Peter Maas.

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    koreen56 

    Welcome Suzi! Hope you find lots of good reading here. Stop back and tell us about the book and what you thought of it.

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    SouthWestZippy 

    Welcome Suzi. I don't recall Murder In The Adirondacks but I am in left field today. So after lunch when I have time I will research it. Let us know if you like or don't like it. I like history true crime books.
    I have a Ann Rule on my reading now list called ...And Never Let Her Go.
    Looks like it is going to be a good one.
    Right now I am reading Up Till NOW by William Shatner. Not a true crime book but a FUNNY laugh out load book.

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    V's shelf 

    Welcome! I've been here a few months and I'm rehooking into TC. I think you found a great group.

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    Judy F 

    Hello Angel and Everyone: My name is Judy and I am new to Shelfari. If anyone knows of good true crime books please let me know. Please write back. My email address is judyroseemily@yahoo.com. Sincerely, Judy

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    Suzi R 

    Hi I forgot I posted here. I finished Murder in the Adirondacks and added it to the group shelf. It is about the Craig Gillette, Grace Brown case that was the inspiration for An American Tragedy by T. Dreiser(I think). The author is a newsman and the book is very well researched and well written(I felt). He gives the history of the victim and murderer, details what is known of the crime and trial and execution, detailed but not too detailed, the second part of the book goes into how the crime became a subject of folklore, folk songs, movies, novels etc. All very interesting.

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  Judy F 

  Hi Karen: My name is Judy and I like to read true crime books that I get so engrossed in that I can't put down. Do you have any suggestions? How was the Stranger Beside Me and In Cold Blood. Please write back. Judy My email address is judyroseemily@yahoo.com

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    koreen56 

    Welcome Judy. Feel free to browse through the shelves here and our posts and I'm sure you'll find lots of good reading.

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  suspreena 

  Hi. I only recently got hooked on TC. I also have phases where it's all I read. I have a much larger want to read list of TC than books I have read. I'm slowly fixing that. I have a major in Criminal Justice and a minor in Psychology. I'm trying to get my stuff together for a Masters in Forensic Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.
  
  I have always had the minds set that looked for ways around security. I can all too easily understand the hows and whys. This is not to say I condone what they do. It had 'helped' a bit having a very ADHD daughter who also has a bit of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and PTSD so bad it was mistaken for a mild form of Autism (Asbergers).

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    koreen56 

    Hi Suspreena. Welcome! Hope you come back often and chat.

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    SouthWestZippy 

    Hello and welcome Suspreena.
    
    Waves to everyone else.
    I do hope I have not missed a hello to anyone new. If I have so sorry. :0)

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