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September 2, 2025

Read-Handed: Death fakers and crumbling prisons

the true crime that's worth your time

Read-Handed is our occasional feature updating you on true-crime books, listens, research etc. that we’re in the middle of right now. We hope you’ll add YOUR recent reads — whether you dug the book or DNF’d it partway through — and what you’re looking forward to, too.

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what else is up at Exhibit B. Books

  • #capitolcase sale! If it's tagged "Washington DC" or "New York City," it's 20% off for the next couple of weeks.

  • The current featured author is Jay Robert Nash.

  • What's selling lately: What I've started to call "short-timers" -- classics (Blood and Money, Helter Skelter) that don't stick around long; vintage magazines scaremongering about urban crime; Manson-iana.

keep reading today’s Read-Handed right here

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