True crime

I'm currently reading The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of her Father's Murder by Rachel Howard. I'm finding it interesting, but not nearly as compelling as James Ellroy's My Dark Place, on his investigation into his mother's murder. I'd rate Lost Night as one worth getting from the library, but not a keeper.

One early frustration I had with the book was with Howard's mother - I have a hard time believing that an woman in the 1980s, working as a nurse and making over $80,000 a year, would feel all her options were gone and she had no choice but to stay with a heroin addict, even choosing to marry him after she got pregnant (with Howard's little brother), and then staying with him for years.