Killer obsessions: Rachel Monroe explores women’s attraction to true crime


In her new novel, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, Rachel Monroe touches on everything from the Manson murders and the aftermath on victim Sharon Tate’s family to the story of the West Memphis Three and their wrongful prison conviction. Publicity photo

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