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I listened to The Witches: Salem 1692, by Stacy Schiff. This was fascinating and detailed; I liked Schiff's style and turns of phrase. The narrator, Eliza Foss, was excellent.
Now I've started Little Deaths, by Emma Flint, narrated by Lauren Fortgang and Graham Halstead. I'd been eagerly awaiting this, as the novel is based on the Alice Crimmins case--Crimmins was suspected of murdering her two young children in a case that was tabloid fodder some fifty years ago.
One quibble--in an early chapter, there's a mention of the mom watching The Fugitive on TV--on CBS. Aaargh! That show ran on ABC, not CBS (the 2000 remake aired on CBS), and it took me about ten seconds to Google it and confirm what I was already sure of. It baffles me that an author would put in a detail like the network--a totally unnecessary detail, at that--without verifying it. And then no one else checked it either. Pre-Google, it might have been time-consuming to verify, but now? Ten seconds.
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