What a fascinating interview! I'm going to get this book.

This book keep popping up on my radar, maybe because I live near Cambridge. Looks interesting.

How exciting to be featured in a book. I never have been but my husband has been in a couple due to his work and interests.

One author who wrote about a famous gold heist said that my husband could not be interviewed as he had mysteriously disappeared! Actually he had not, he was working for a newspaper in a rural town and could have been contacted through the State's Journalist Association!

In this instance, my husband was approached by a frightened man who had become innocently involved and needed to unburden himself! It was all very complicated as many years later the amount stolen was returned but it wasn't the same gold.

Interesting! I added it to my to be read list, and then just got a monthly recommend list from my library and this book was on it!

Just to add, I'm certainly not featured in the book, but I do come into it in a small way and I am quoted. And the book has been reviewed--overall extremely positively--by the NY Times, the Washington Post, NPR, etc, and the author interviewed extensively.

Reading it was a very, very strange experience, reliving grim events from 50 years ago and hearing the voices of people I haven't thought of in years. Another friend of mine, also in the book, said he had nightmares sometimes while reading it. Which is not to say the book is at all gory--it's just that it was a very distressing time for all who were part of it even in a small way.

I generally keep away from true crime, but I am intrigued. I put it on my list.

laceyvail. I heard an interview with the author on the BBC yesterday. I had never heard of either the book or her until your post. Thank you for mentioning it.

Lacyvail - I watched the interview you provided. Very intriguing - on my TBR list now.

Just heard on NPR, Maureen Corrigan, book reviewer for Fresh Air, has listed it as one of the 10 best books of 2020.

I intended casually to mention in the December Reading thread that I read We Keep the Dead Close about three weeks ago. Then I noticed, Laceyvail, this thread and your recommendation. I'm glad to see the interest it has engendered because I was (and continue to be) quite taken with Cooper's exploration of Jane Britton's murder and how it had a social-cultural impact at the time of occurrence that has lasted for over a half century. (One of the first things that struck me when I peeled off the dust jacket was the bright pink color of the book's hard binding. I have a feeling that color was carefully considered.)

I understand how Jane's story became something of an obsession with Cooper, even though it happened decades before Cooper's own time at Harvard -- indeed it was almost a couple of decades before Cooper was born.

This sort of true crime case is right up my alley -- the journalistic aspects and style of reportage. It just so happens that I've recently been reading Anthropology and Archaeology articles and books on these subjects, so I immediately recalled that several of the names of the 'players' at Harvard were ones I had already seen before. That made it all the more interesting to me. If I didn't know it before, I realize now just how incestuous -- competitively so -- these disciplines are.

I can't really review the book because I don't want to give away the details that all readers should discover for themselves, if they are intrigued. But if anyone wants to discuss this book further -- once enough people have read it -- I gladly will participate in such a discussion! I have questions that other readers most likely can answer for me.

Oh, friedag, I would love to do that! Let's see if we can get others interested. The last book discussion I participated in here was about Kristen Lavransdatter, a book I adore.

I have ordered the book and look forward to reading it. It has been a long time since I have participated in a discussion here but I do read the posts regularly and will enjoy a good discussion.

I agree - it is about time we had a dedicated book discussion!

I also used to enjoy the book discussions but this one isn't available in the UK, so will have to watch!

Vee, can't you get it from Book Depository?

Thanks Annpan. I checked and it is just out over here but I am very unwilling to pay so much for a paperback (Waterstones over £17 a little less at Am*zon) Perhaps the library will order it.

Btw I understand Am*zon has taken over the Book Depository. It used to be based just up the road from us in a warehouse at Gloucester Docks. I imagine it outgrew the space.

Vee, that happened years ago but we were promised the free postage would remain.

New books are expensive but I indulge when the library list is too long and I really want to read the book NOW!! I also feel that I am putting my Covid stimulus cash to the intended use. Apparently many of the population are banking the money.

For Yanks, what is the Book Depository?

Annpan, yes we still get free postage with the Book Depository but then their stuff costs more than from Amazon! All swings and roundabouts.

Here the general public didn't receive any Covid handouts from the Govt although businesses got help and individuals who had been furloughed got, I think 80%, of their pay. With everything that has been spent plus the billions that have gone into the NHS it will mean income tax going up by leaps and bounds . . .

laceyvail the Book Depository was originally a large warehouse from which books were sold at below market-price. Now it has become part of the Amazon Empire.

I would also be interested in reading this for a discussion. Any time after the holidays would work for me, I just need to get the book.

Book Depository did have free shipping to the U.S. which was a real bonus.

I am 12th in line at the library with 3 copies in the system. If I can't get a library copy in time for the discussion (seems likely), I'll order a copy of my own.