Great true crime book

[Snapolit1]

If your idea of good summer reading is a grisly true crime book, I'd strongly recommend The Man on the Train by Bill James and his daughter. Yep, that Bill James. A meticulously documented book about America (mostly rural) in the 1900-1920 period and a traveling dude that killed a lot of families. It's an amazing scholarly historical work in my mind and I learned a lot of things about early 20th c America. It's like 350 pages and I will no doubt blow through it in 4-5 days. Really can't put it down. Would strongly recommend.

[G1911]

I just read this a couple months ago. He has an interesting resolution, his style of writing and asides-to-the-reader comes of a little strange in the true crime context and it took me awhile to get into it (I am used to much a more scholarly and not personal tone), but I ended up enjoying it.

[mrreality68]

Thanks for the recommendation

I will put it on the summer reading list and I will let you know

[Snapolit1]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Thanks for the recommendation

I will put it on the summer reading list and I will let you know

Getting to the end of the book, I will say it's 60-70 pages longer than it needed to be. But I really enjoyed reading.