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Sarah Weinman

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Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece, which was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, BuzzFeed, The National Post, Literary Hub, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Vulture, and won the Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Crime Writing. She also edited the anthologies Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession (Ecco) Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin).

Weinman writes the twice-monthly Crime column for the New York Times Book Review. A 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for Reporting, her work has also appeared most recently in New York, The Wall Street J ...more

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Truth Is Drifting Away From True Crime

During the end credits of the recent film ��Boston Strangler,�� which dramatized the real-life efforts to crack that criminal case, there��s a notation that addresses the fate of a convicted murderer named George Nassar who, the movie states, is ��still in prison in Massachusetts.�� I��ve long been fascinated with the Strangler case and Mr. Nassar��s connection to it, so this detail caught Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.54 · 19,712 ratings · 3,003 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman, Cassandra Campbell (Narrator) 3.42 avg rating — 7,223 ratings — published 2018 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession by Sarah Weinman, Patrick Radden Keefe (Introduction) 3.58 avg rating — 3,119 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free 3.55 avg rating — 1,915 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense 4.05 avg rating — 829 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman (Editor), Rabia Chaudry (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 635 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1940s: Laura / The Horizontal Man / In a Lonely Place / The Blank Wall by Sarah Weinman (Editor), Vera Caspary, Helen Eustis 4.16 avg rating — 307 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s (LOA #269): Mischief / The Blunderer / Beast in View / Fools' Gold (Library of America Women Crime Writers Collection) by Sarah Weinman (Editor), Charlotte Armstrong, Patricia Highsmith 3.96 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pandemics: Epidemics in a Shrinking World it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Convict and the Conservative liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Women Crime Writers: Library of America (3 books)
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“The appreciation of art can make a sucker out of those who forget the darkness of real life.”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

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“intercostal”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

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“He had spent the previous year sharpening his observations of quotidian matters. He noted down all sorts of minutiae, the better to portray the American prepubescent girl at the heart of his novel with greater accuracy. Nabokov recorded heights and weights, average age of first menstruation, attitude changes, even the “proper method of inserting an enema tip into a rectum.”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

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