I was hooked by Hester Prynne's name in the subtitle: The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne (#1,332). Kate Winkler Dawson promised in her Prologue that she would reveal previously unknown facts about a true crime case involving the death of a mill girl in 1840s Tiverton, Rhode Island (today Fall River, Massachusetts) and that she would be working in tandem with another author, Catharine Read Arnold Williams. She coyly draws the reader in by setting the scene, although she neglects to tell the reader at first that Catharine Williams was reporting on the supposed murder in her own best-selling book from 1844. I tried to read this several times, but I just couldn't get over the creepiness factor of Dawson's approach. Reader, I did not finish this.
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