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Lisa
May 03, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I enjoyed this book, but at times it did get bogged-down in details. I definitely appreciated the Moby Dick quotes in the segues as they tied the “whaling town” roots to it’s grittier present. Even now, New Bedford has a major drug epidemic and many people living in poverty.

The one thing I’d criticize is how this new 2017 edition of a book from 1994 didn’t have its epilogue updated for the present. It would have been a minor effort. By 2015, both Pina, the DA and Ponte, the embattled suspect, we
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Dara S.
May 06, 2009 rated it really liked it
Kelly
Dec 12, 2009 marked it as tbr-true-crime
Shelves: asap
Diana
Feb 02, 2012 marked it as to-read
Dixie
Apr 14, 2015 rated it it was ok
Sarah
Oct 18, 2017 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: true-crime
Jess
Nov 18, 2017 marked it as to-read
Becky
Mar 13, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Bridget
Dec 11, 2022 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition