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Lee Ann Howlett
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Janine O’Neill
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On January 9, 2002, twelve-year-old Ashley Pond left her family’s apartment in Oregon City, Oregon, to catch her bus to school. Then, she vanished.
Ashley loved her single-parent mother, but she hated her drinking, and the father figures in her life had come and gone. So she had learned to rely on her friends. Recently, however, things in her life had become even more complicated, so when she disappeared, many people believed she’d simply run away.
But Janine O’Neill had prosecuted crimes against children in Oregon City for seven years. She knew, with absolute certainty, that a twelve-year-old in that community would never vanish under the circumstances Ashley reportedly had unless something had gone terribly wrong.
Then, another girl went missing, and the son of a self-proclaimed serial killer identified himself as the prime suspect in both disappearances. O’Neill became obsessed with the story—so obsessed she eventually quit her full-time job and set off on a multistate search into the past with one overriding question: Could anything be scarier than what the public believed had happened to these girls?The answer, she learned, was yes.
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Melissa Ramirez, Claudine Anne Luera, Guiselda Hernandez, and Janelle Ortiz were four marginalized women striving to make ends meet as sex workers. They looked out for one another. But they would soon share a connection that none of them could have imagined. When Melissa was found dead, the other three women were on edge but assumed they were safe. Twelve days later, they too were dead and police had detained an unlikely suspect—Juan David Ortiz, a ten-year veteran of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well researched
- By Tiffany on 10-07-24
By: Rick Jervis
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The Serial Killer's Apprentice
- The True Story of How Houston's Deadliest Murderer Turned a Kid into a Killing Machine
- By: Katherine Ramsland, Tracy Ullman
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. Corll baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 for each boy they could bring him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well done
- By River Elder on 04-26-24
By: Katherine Ramsland, and others
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The Hunt: The True Story of Alaska's Most Notorious Serial Killer, Robert Hansen
- True Crime
- By: Ryan Green
- Narrated by: Steve White
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 53
The Hunt is a chilling account of Robert Hansen's reign of terror. It delves deep into the psyche of a serial killer and captures the reality of his monstrous acts. Ryan Green provides a suspenseful narrative that draws the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a captivating thriller.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narration is odd
- By Jo Garcia on 02-06-25
By: Ryan Green
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A Devil in the Valley
- By: Paul Holes, Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Jim Clemente, Paul Holes
- Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 980
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 910
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 899
In 1994, an aspiring young cold-case investigator in California’s East Bay, Paul Holes, puts aside trying to solve the Golden State Killer case as he waits for science to catch up. Paul returns to an old file cabinet at the back of the forensic lab to look for another cold case he can work—something with DNA. He finds one. The 1978 murder of a married mother who went for a morning jog in a nearby park. The original investigators believed that a serial killer named Phillip Hughes was responsible; they just couldn’t prove it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!!!
- By Nick on 08-05-21
By: Paul Holes, and others
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THE 'BABY DOLL' SERIAL KILLER
- The John Eric Armstrong Homicides
- By: B.R. Bates, Gerald Cliff
- Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 6
Considered one of the most prolific serial killers in Michigan's history, John Eric Armstrong is believed to have attacked at least 10 people in Detroit between summer 1999 and spring 2000, killing five and forever changing the lives of five others. But his numbers beyond Detroit may be even more deadly: With his April 2000 arrest on Michigan Avenue, one of Detroit's thriving areas of prostitution, Armstrong confessed to numerous other killings around the country and world from serving in the Navy aboard the USS Nimitz in the 1990s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read
- By Nicole on 05-14-25
By: B.R. Bates, and others
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Fatal Jealousy
- The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder
- By: Colin McEvoy, Lynn Olanoff
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 51
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 51
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania state trooper witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive - and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers, "I just killed everybody." Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery. In the home of Michael's ex-girlfriend, Denise Mehri, they find four bodies that had been stabbed repeatedly with a knife.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great listen!
- By Brandy on 03-03-15
By: Colin McEvoy, and others
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Monster
- By: Steve Jackson
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 19 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,874
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,867
On a snowy winter evening in 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. Mary survived, but her predator's violence had only just begun. After 10 years in prison, Tom Luther was released a far more vicious criminal. Soon, from the Rockies to West Virginia, like Ted Bundy, Luther enticed a chain of women into his murderous trap.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting....harrowingly so.
- By Klh23 on 07-24-20
By: Steve Jackson
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On the Farm
- Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
- By: Stevie Cameron
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 192
Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion.
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1 out of 5 stars
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zzzz
- By Michael on 05-16-22
By: Stevie Cameron
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The Mother Next Door
- Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
- By: Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber
- Narrated by: Andrea Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 276
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 265
No bond is more sacred than the one between a mother and child. And no figure is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the reason for the illness? What if the sympathy is the point? With help from some of the top MBP experts in the world, Dunlop and Weber uncover the complex maze of psychological, systemic, and cultural issues that compound MBP and offer solutions for how we might find our way out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important and Fascinating Book
- By Anonymous User on 05-20-25
By: Andrea Dunlop, and others
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Beyond Obsession
- The Shocking True Story of a Teenage Love Affair Turned Deadly
- By: Richard Hammer
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
Joyce Aparo seemed to be the perfect single mother. She doted on her sixteen-year-old daughter, Karin, encouraging her musical ability and lavishing affection on her. But behind closed doors, Joyce was a terror. For thirteen years, she beat Karin savagely and demeaned her relentlessly. When Karin met the troubled yet brilliant Dennis Coleman, the two fell head-over-heels. But Joyce disapproved—so she had to die.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Take an anti- nausea pill . .
- By krystaldcox on 10-31-23
By: Richard Hammer
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Long Haul
- Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
- By: Frank Figliuzzi
- Narrated by: Frank Figliuzzi
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 331
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Story4 out of 5 stars 311
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Expected Not what I expected
- By Huntryx on 06-06-24
By: Frank Figliuzzi
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No One Is Perfect
- The True Story of Candace Mossler and America's Strangest Murder Trial
- By: Ron Smith
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 14
Thirty years before the O.J. Simpson case, America was fascinated by another "trial of the century." Jacques Mossler, a prominent financier known as "King of the Installment Loans", was brutally murdered in his Key Biscayne apartment. Suspicion quickly fell upon Melvin Lane Powers, the shady nephew of Mossler's wife Candace. When investigators discovered that "Candy and Mel" were carrying on an incestuous love affair, the pair were charged with the crime. The Miami trial featured the legendary defense attorney, Percy Foreman, whose outrageous tactics created a number of memorable moments. A...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Money buys freedom
- By TINA HALL KINCAID on 05-10-25
By: Ron Smith
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Blood Will Tell
- A Shocking True Story of Marriage, Murder, and Fatal Family Secrets
- By: Carlton Smith
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4 out of 5 stars 59
For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident.... By the time the Palo Alto Police Department looked closer at the death of Kristine Fitzhugh, there could be only one conclusion. Someone had murdered Kristine in her own home, inflicting a series of horrific blows to the back of her head, and then cleaned up the mess to make it look like an accident.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow Paced
- By Renee on 05-16-18
By: Carlton Smith
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Evil Has a Name
- The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
- By: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21,485
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19,315
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19,218
For his victims, for their families and for the investigators tasked with finding him, the senselessness and brutality of the Golden State Killer's acts were matched only by the powerlessness they felt at failing to uncover his identity. Then, on April 24, 2018, authorities arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo at his home in Citrus Heights, Calif., based on DNA evidence linked to the crimes. Amazingly, it seemed, evil finally had a name. Please note: This work contains descriptions of violent crime and sexual assault and may not be suitable for all listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible Raises The Bar On True Crime Genre
- By R. Squyres on 11-16-18
By: Paul Holes, and others
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House of Secrets
- By: Lowell Cauffiel
- Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
For years, Eddie Lee Sexton ruled his large family like Charles Manson. The depraved patriarch dominated his ragged brood of twelve children mentally, physically, and sexually, and enforced every cruelty imaginable, from vicious beatings to raping his daughters and fathering their children. Finally, in 1992, Sexton's eighteen-year-old daughter Machelle, seeking refuge in a women's shelter, revealed the shocking, sordid details of her father's abuse to authorities. As the law attempted to catch up to Eddie Lee Sexton, he moved his family to a mobile home in western Florida.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good writing, poor narration
- By Andrew C on 04-04-24
By: Lowell Cauffiel
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The Forever Witness
- How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
- By: Edward Humes
- Narrated by: Edward Humes
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her boyfriend Jay Cook were found in rural Washington. It was a brutal crime, and it was the perfect crime: With few clues and no witnesses, an international manhunt turned up empty, and the sensational case that shocked the Pacific Northwest gradually slipped from the headlines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling
- By MLB on 01-17-23
By: Edward Humes
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Starkweather
- The Untold Story of the Killing Spree That Changed America
- By: Harry N. MacLean
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 129
On January 21, 1958, nineteen-year-old Charles Starkweather changed the course of crime in the United States when he murdered the parents and sister of his fourteen-year-old girlfriend (and possible accomplice), Caril Ann Fugate, in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby town of Bennet, where a farmer was robbed and killed. When Starkweather’s car broke down, the teenagers who stopped to help were murdered and jammed into a storm cellar. By the time the dust settled, ten innocent people were dead and the city of Lincoln was in a state of terror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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solid
- By Patrick on 11-30-23
By: Harry N. MacLean
Relentless Quest for the Truth
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Lots of boring narrative.
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