Month: April 2019

The Last Stone

The Last Stone

The Last Stone by Mark Bowden
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press on April 2, 2019
Pages: 304
Format: hardback
Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime
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Synopsis

On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. As shock spread, then grief, a massive police effort found nothing. The investigation was shelved, and mystery endured. Then, in 2013, a cold case squad detective found something he and a generation of detectives had missed. It pointed them toward a man named Lloyd Welch, then serving time for child molestation in Delaware.

As a cub reporter for a Baltimore newspaper, Mark Bowden covered the frantic first weeks of the story. In The Last Stone, he returns to write its ending. Over months of intense questioning and extensive investigation of Welch's sprawling, sinister Appalachian clan, five skilled detectives learned to sift truth from determined lies. How do you get a compulsive liar with every reason in the world to lie to tell the truth? The Last Stone recounts a masterpiece of criminal interrogation, and delivers a chilling and unprecedented look inside a disturbing criminal mind.

Trump Sues Oversight Committee: Valid Move or Aggressive Delay Tactic?

In an unprecedented move, the sitting president of the United States on April 22 sued, in his personal capacity, a congressional committee to try to prevent that committee from obtaining documents and information from a third party that had been served with a congressional subpoena.

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April 27, 2019 at 05:42AM

Lost and Wanted

Lost and Wanted

Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger
Published by Knopf Publishing Group on April 2, 2019
Pages: 336
Format: hardback
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Synopsis

'In the first few months after Charlie died, I began hearing from her much more frequently'

Helen Clapp is a physics professor. She doesn't believe in pseudo-science, or time travel and especially not in ghosts. So when she gets a missed call from Charlie, her closest friend from university with whom she hasn't spoken in over a year, Helen thinks there must be some mistake. Because Charlie died two days ago.

Then when her young son, Jack, claims to have seen Charlie in their house just the other day, Helen begins to have doubts.

Through the grief of the husband and daughter Charlie left behind, Helen is drawn into the orbit of Charlie's world, slotting in the missing pieces of her friend's past. And, as she delves into the web of their shared history, Helen finds herself entangled in the forgotten threads of her own life.

"Lost and Wanted" is a searing novel from one of America's most exciting writers about the sacred knottiness of female friendship, the forces which fuse us together and those which drive us apart.