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Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice - his girlfriend, Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants, who had already been decimated by a punishing economy before they were terrified by a string of fires they could not explain.
Incorporating this drama into the long-overlooked history of arson in the United States, American Fire re-creates the anguished nights that this quiet county spent lit up in flames, mesmerizingly evoking a microcosm of rural America - a land half gutted before the fires even began.
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- Melissa M.
- 05-16-18
Interesting read
Interesting read , hard to believe its true . Not for those looking for beautiful prose or to get swept away to another land by a narrative this is not your book. Nevertheless the Author does a good job to give adequate background and provide enough background about the characters thst you feel like you know them.
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- Eileen V.
- 11-04-17
Truth is always stranger than fiction
If you didn't know this was a true story, you'd think it was a very unlikely piece of fiction. Very interesting tale presented in an interesting way.
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- Wendy
- 10-10-17
Interesting Story- Narrator very difficult to listen to
I really liked the arc of the story- alternating between past and present until the two stories collide. The narrator speaks in a very choppy intonation that makes it hard to listen to, but worth the story if you can get passed the first few chapters and get used to it!
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- Jackie625
- 12-26-17
Good book, Bad Reader
This sounded as if it was read by a robot. She. Pronounced. Every. Word. With. No. Emotion. Siri would have done a better job.
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- Julie M. Badger
- 10-18-17
As an Eastern Shore person, I was keen to
read this story as it unfolded in my neighborhood.
The story is good and well researched and well-written. My only negatives were several misspelled place names and the butchering of place names the reader managed.
Still, a good read.
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- Pamela T. Goodman
- 09-27-18
Vanilla telling of what most people know already
This book was simplistic. Maybe that is it's meaning. It was predictable and bland. The reading was close to awful. Not worth your time.
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- Ellen Z. Harrison
- 07-21-18
Boring
How am author and reader can take an interesting story and make it tedious is remarkable
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- Bryan Campbell
- 08-17-17
Narration is horrible
If you want to hear Siri read you a book, then this is the book for you! The story is good but the narration is hard to overcome.
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- Cheryl Graphman
- 08-15-21
Come here
Living in Accomack County since 2012, these fires were all the talk. As a come here from across the MD line with ancestors that landed here in the 17th century, I found the book very interesting. I especially enjoyed the history of what was and is now. I wonder how much just pure boredom played a part in their poor decision to set these fires. It is sad because there are probably hundreds more of once loved but now abandoned homesteads and buildings mingled in with all the burned remnants of the many arsons. There is nothing on the ESVA other than pure beauty and if you live here it is simply the beauty of this county that keeps you here.
Thanks for caring and sharing about an unnerving time in our county.
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- Bryan & Jessy
- 07-14-20
The narrator was good atleast?
Yes it was a true story, but the whole thing was kind of flat. no real meaning behind her actions, his yes but hers no. The only reason I got this book was because it was a book club pick.
I am going to ask for a refund, I would never listen to it twice.
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At Jessica McCord's house, law enforcement officials found windows covered in blankets, a cache of weapons and ammunition, carpets torn up, new tile on the floors, and the couch missing. Then they learned about the nasty divorce and bitter custody battle that had landed Jessica in jail. Along with her new police officer husband, Jessica became the prime suspect in this brutal double murder.
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Way too long and predictable!
- By B Hart on 12-30-14
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - and Other True Cases
- Ann Rule's Crime Files, Book 12
- By: Ann Rule
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are shrouded in smoke and mirrors, and when criminals skillfully evade law enforcement in a maddening cat-and-mouse chase? Even the most devoted true-crime listener won't predict the outcome of these truly baffling cases until the conclusions revealed in Ann Rule's marvelously insightful narrative.
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Pretty Good
- By Amazon Customer on 06-02-15
By: Ann Rule
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Killer Clown
- The John Wayne Gacy Murders
- By: Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried beneath his house of horrors - until a teenage boy disappeared before Christmas in 1978, leading prosecutor Terry Sullivan on the greatest manhunt of his career.
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SCARRIEST BOOK I HAVE EVER LISTENED TO!
- By Steve on 12-21-17
By: Terry Sullivan, and others
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Every Breath You Take
- A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder
- By: Ann Rule
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 20 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila Blackthorne Bellush never truly escaped the enslavement of her ex-husband, multimillionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer - and a violent, controlling sociopath who terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.
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- By Ronda on 12-28-20
By: Ann Rule
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True Crime Addict
- How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
- By: James Renner
- Narrated by: James Renner
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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When 11-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession led James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011 James began researching the strange disappearance of Maura Murray, a UMass student who went missing after wrecking her car in rural New Hampshire in 2004.
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Honest. Surprising. Fascinating.
- By River Holmes-miller on 05-27-16
By: James Renner
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Black Bird
- By: James Keene, Hillel Levin
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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James Keene had it all: cars, girls, houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade was a money-obsessed drug dealer desperate to make the big score to get him out of the business. When he was sentenced to prison, it seemed the only lessons he would learn would be about navigating convict society. Instead, he was offered a chance to regain his freedom in return for going undercover in the nation’s highest security prison for the criminally insane.
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Very sobering and unfortunately true
- By M. Hatfield on 03-24-17
By: James Keene, and others
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In Plain Sight
- The Startling Truth Behind the Elizabeth Smart Investigation
- By: Tom Smart, Lee Benson
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. Paced like a thriller, this true account moves between the parallel stories of the searchers and the abductor. Going beyond a mere eyewitness account, the book includes information culled from interviews with more than 150 people involved in the search and investigation, notes from family meetings, and memos from law enforcement officials.
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You are one strange man.
- By Dustin Izsa on 03-21-20
By: Tom Smart, and others
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Abandoned Prayers
- An Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession, and Amish Secrets (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. The residents of Chester, Nebraska buried him as "Little Boy Blue", unclaimed and unidentified - until a phone call from Ohio two years later led authorities to Eli Stutzman, the boy's father. Gregg Olsen's Abandoned Prayers is an incredible true story of murder and Amish secrets.
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Great book
- By Lisa Gainers on 08-30-21
By: Gregg Olsen
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To the Bridge
- A True Story of Motherhood and Murder
- By: Nancy Rommelmann
- Narrated by: Nancy Rommelmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. Miraculously, his seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was saved. As the public cried out for blood, Amanda was arrested, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison.
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Difficult subject matter; not a fan of the writing style nor narration
- By DS on 07-07-18
By: Nancy Rommelmann