Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
Anneli Rufus is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven critically acclaimed nonfiction books. Her feature articles have appeared in dozens of publications worldwide, including Salon.com, Westways, Fate and the Boston Globe. Her latest book, California Babylon (published in 2000 by St. Martin's Press), covers the Golden State's most fascinating scandals, murders, and more, with specific details on crime-scene locations.
Currently she reviews books for the San Francisco Chronicle, Pages Magazine,Book Magazine, the East, Art & Auction and others. She also writes a literary column about local authors for the weekly East Bay Express in Northern California. Below are links to two of her recent reviews:
Loving little Alice: Fictional story of Lewis Carroll's obsession treads on dangerous ground
Anneli Rufus
Book 'Em Vol. 30
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Book 'Em: Crime Magazine's Review of True-Crime Books, Vol. 30
By Anneli Rufus
As I write this, a strange case is unfolding in Oakland, California, not far from where I live. A little over a week ago, a man reported that while he dashed into and then out of a store on an errand, his 5-year-old foster son who had been waiting beside the family car had simply vanished. The boy, Hasanni Campbell, has cerebral palsy and so could not have successfully run away in that short span. The foster father subsequently failed a lie-detector test. Yesterday, as the boy remained missing, investigators arrived at the foster home bearing a search warrant. According to media reports, they were seeking a "sword-like weapon." As new updates on this story appear every few hours, I get the eerie feeling that we're watching a true-crime book in the making — which reminds me yet again that, unlike detective novels, each of these stories is all too tragically real.
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