True Crime Books
True Crime Books
When we talk true crime books, the first few authors that come to mind are John Grisham – but hold on a second, that’s wrong!
True Crime means exactly that – the story is real and based on real people and victims. The real crime writer usually does some intensive research and interviews with witnesses, freed-suspects and occassionally revisit the crime scene to collect facts on the story, adhereing to strict journalistic rules.
There are highly-speculative true crimes books that are released mainly to cash in on a very public crime case.
Most true crime books are real, non-fiction accounts of real crimes. However there are some true-crime fiction books out there that are based loosely on similar cases ( this is where John Grisham comes to mind)
Read our reviews on some crime books we find interesting:
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
World Without End by Ken Follett (we quite like this particular one. And you can get a copy for cheap here)
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Persuader by Jack Reacher
Books
The written word is one of the most important things of all. We are taught how to read at a very young age and will go on to use this skill throughout our entire life. Hardly a day will pass when we do not read something, even if it is just a sign above a door. Words are everywhere we go and we need to understand them. They are at work, at home and everywhere in between. We will see them on television, on the computer and on the bus.
It all sounds as though reading should be a chore, but this is not the case at all! In fact, many of us will get a great deal of pleasure from the written word in books. Think about it; even if you are not a big reader, you will probably still glance at the newspaper. And if you do not take a daily paper, then the chances are that you will enjoy magazines!
Book Reviews
Many people will place an enormous amount of importance on reviews. And now that so many of us have access to the internet, even more items are being tested, rated or commented on. A lot of consumers will simply not even consider buying something until they have read what other people have to say. But is this always the right way to be? Should we really base so many of our decisions upon the opinions of others? And are reviews accurate for any type of item?
Book News
There has never been a better time for finding information on books, authors or publishers! There are entire websites to visit that are dedicated to all manner of book news and any other reading-related subject you can imagine. More and more of will us now prefer to read a few book reviews before going out to buy a new novel. And if you want to know what the critics have to say about a book, then the internet will have more reviews than anywhere else!
