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In July 2023, in a quiet Australian country town, Erin Patterson - stay-at-home mother and true crime devotee - invited her husband's devoutly Christian family to lunch. Within days, three of her guests were dead and the fourth was in a coma. They had all been poisoned by death cap mushrooms...

In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller, outraging censors and earning new fans, all of them drawn by the book's mythic premise: A Real Diary, by Anonymous.

Join the thrilling pursuit as private detective Jerry Boyne chases after a bank teller who has audaciously embezzled almost a million dollars, stashed in a suitcase. Trapped in his seventh-floor apartment, the cunning thief seemingly disappears into thin air. The chase intensifies as Boyne is assisted by Barbara Wallace, a young woman possessing extraordinary observational and deductive abilities, rivaling those of Sherlock Holmes himself. This summary was beautifully articulated by Mark Nelson.