The Unsolved Series: a deepdive

 I have been reading a series of books I've found over the years browsing my local Barnes and Noble. (I found them in pre-covid times of course.) At this point, I have four of them; Unsolved Crimes by Sarah Herman, Unsolved Deaths by Charles Phillips, Unsolved Enigmas by Sam Pilger and Leo Moynihan, and Unsolved Mysteries by Joel Levy. Over the next few weeks (months?) I'm going to go through their books and take a look at each of some of their cases in a little more detail. Let's see if we can solve anything.

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The Cases that Haunt Us by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker: A Review

The Before:

I had been trying to get my hands on a copy of this book for a while. They had a copy at my local library that I requested. However, after waiting for a few months, I check back to see the copy had been lost. That's when I decided to order a copy from Thriftbooks.com. 

The Feels:

This is a nice place to get started on some pretty famous true crime cases. Everything is pretty well laid out and nicely organized. Douglas and Olshaker clearly did their research.

The Concerns:

Why is this so white? I know they are famous cases, but I wish there would have beens something new in here. Maybe I'm just not the right audience for this. I would have been nice though to have included at least one new story from a POC/BIPOC culture. There are a lot of great mysteries and they aren't talked about. 

The Score:

Plot: N/A

Writing Style: 6/10

Meaningfulness: 5/10

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