Join us for this exciting book club at the Westlake Porter Public Library. We'll be delving into new and classic boo ks of true crime&mdash\;from murder\, to robbery\, heists\, and arson we w ill touch on every aspect of humanity's darker instincts. We will meet on the third Monday o f every month\, except June &\; December. This will be a great way to discover new and classic True Crime writing.
\nThis month we will be reading Barbara Rae-Venter's \;I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever. \;
\nFrom Amazon:
\nEDGAR AWARD FINALIST &bull\; \;&ldquo\;A true-c rime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master.&rdquo\;&mdash\;Jo hn Douglas\, \;New York Times \;bestselling co-author of& nbsp\;Mindhunter
\n&ldquo\;Bar bara Rae-Venter isn&rsquo\;t just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killer&mdash\;she&rsquo\;s an unsung hero who has given m urdered women and children their faces and names back.&rdquo\;&mdash\;Maur een Callahan\, \;New York Times \;bestselling author of&n bsp\;American Predator
\n&ldqu o\;Echoes the dedication displayed by such fictional police detectives as California novelist Michael Connelly&rsquo\;s Harry Bosch.&rdquo\;&mdash\; The Wall Street Journal
\nFor twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California\, stalking vict ims and killing without remorse. Then he simply disappeared\, for the next \;forty-four years\, \;until an amateur DNA sleuth opened her lap top. In \;I Know Who You Are\, \;Barbara Rae-Venter revea ls how she went from researching her family history as a retiree to huntin g for a notorious serial killer&mdash\;and how she became the nation&rsquo \;s leading authority on investigative genetic genealogy\, the most dazzli ng new crime-fighting weapon to appear in decades.
\nRae-Venter shares haunting\, often thrilling accounts of how she helped solve some of America&rsquo\;s most chilling cold cases in the span of just three years\, frequently starting with little more than a DN A sample. She brings readers inside her unique &ldquo\;grasshopper mind&rd quo\; as she pores through obituaries\, marriage records\, and old newspap er articles. \;Readers join in on urgent calls with sheriffs\, FB I agents\, and district attorneys as she details the struggle to obtain us able crime scene DNA samples\, until\, ï¬nally\, a critical piece of t he puzzle clicks into place.
\nI Kn ow Who You Are \;captures both the exhilaration of these discover ies and the deep-rooted emotions that linger around cold cases. It is \;a story of relentless curiosity and reinvention\, and of human beings st riving to answer the most elemental questions about themselves: What deï ¬nes identity? Where do we belong? And are we truly who we think we are ?
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