Little Deaths
Book description
Haunting, intoxicating and heart-poundingly suspenseful, Little Deaths is a gripping novel about love, morality and obsession, exploring the capacity for good and evil within us all.
It's the summer of 1965, and the streets of Queens, New York shimmer in a heatwave. One July morning, Ruth Malone wakes to find…
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1 author picked Little Deaths as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Flint’s novel combines literary fiction with the darkness of true crime and draws its inspiration from the 1965 Alice Crimmins case in Queens, NY. Her own small children disappeared from home, later found dead. The prosecution portrayed Crimmins as a woman with poor morals. An all-male jury convicted her on thin circumstantial evidence. Flint’s chronicle of the case is heartbreaking and perfectly evokes the time period.
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