The latest ID Book Club Pick is here!
Plus, new paperback fiction, poetry, and non-fiction reads!
This month’s extremely newsworthy ID Book Club Pick is The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell by Barry Levine
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Who was Jeffrey Epstein?
A Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist unearths never-before-reported details in the most comprehensive account yet of the disgraced financier’s life, death, and criminal web—including the role of Ghislaine Maxwell. READ MORE »
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Q&A WITH AUTHOR BARRY LEVINE
Have you always been interested in true crime? Why did you decide to write a book based on crime?
I became hooked on true crime stories when my college newspaper at Temple University in Philadelphia—The Temple News—sent me to New York City during the hot summer of 1977 to do a feature story on the Son of Sam serial killer, who was terrorizing the Big Apple.
What was supposed to be a two-day trip turned into a two-week adventure. I attended a massive press conference at a Queens police precinct, and I was totally mesmerized by the professional police reporters. I began tracking down leads on his possible identity, talked to victims’ families, explored the crime scenes, tried to get into the mind of who this guy was. Little did any of us know that David Berkowitz was only weeks away from being identified and arrested.
Back then, Son of Sam hysteria was at its height. Screaming headlines every day in the New York Post and Daily News. Women all over the city were wearing their hair up in buns in the belief that Sam would not target them. Everyone wanted to figure out where he would strike next. And I came up with this “Double S” theory for “Son of Sam” after marking the shootings on a map that appeared to show a pattern. We published my map in the college paper with my stories.READ MORE AT ID
For more, check out ID’s 3-hour special, Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein, on the life and mysterious death of this criminal mastermind. Stream now.
FICTION PAPERBACKS
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of her country during World War II in Danielle Steel’s thrilling new novel.
At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. READ MORE »
Order Spy Penguin Random House ▸
Behind every great love song is a great love story, from the author of Star-Crossed.
Concert pianist Diana is finally ready to marry her longtime fiancé, Arie; she’s even composing a beautiful love song for him and finishes it while on tour. Before she can play it for him, though, tragedy strikes—and Diana is lost to Arie forever.But her song might not be.READ MORE »
Order The Lost Love Song Penguin Random House ▸
POETIC PAPERBACKS
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
Translated and with an introduction by Sawako Nakayasu
FinnaNate Marshal
NONFICTION PAPERBACKS
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A savvy guidebook for beating Trump’s tricks, traps, and tweets from a founder of The Lincoln Project, now updated with new material on the historic battle between Trump and Joe Biden—and how Covid-19 has changed the race.Recently featured in The New Yorker. READ MORE »
Order Running Against the Devil Penguin Random House ▸