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Betrayal

Martina Cole

5.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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Betrayal is the twenty-third novel from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller, Martina Cole, author of...

The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die for

Kate White

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A deadly delicious collection of recipes for appetizers, entrees, desserts, drinks, and more, all...

Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Abducted in Plain Sight (2017) in Movies

Jun 26, 2019

Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)

2017 | Biography, Crime, Documentary

7.2

(11 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Underdeveloped True Crime Story

Unlike a lot of the episodic true crime stories that have been on Netflix recently this one takes a one off 91 minute movie approach which leaves you wanting for more details and info. Although going for a whole full series would probably be pushing it, I really feel this story needed a bit more development. A mini series would've been preferable to the too rapid rattling through of a series of hard to believe events.

It’s pretty much all told via interviews with Jan (the victim) and her family with little from other sources. Considering most of it comes from their lips and a lot sounds incredibly naive (even for 1970s) it has a very hard to believe feel to it. Needed a lot of development on some points barely mentioned.

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City Of God (2002)

8.3 (16 Ratings) Rate It

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The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where...

Ross (3284 KP) rated Mindhunter - Season 1 in TV

Sep 2, 2020

Superb series

Fantastic series documenting a fictionalised account of the ground-breaking FBI agents who tried to define a system of using psychology and profiling to try and identify what kind of person may have committed a crime.
Includes portrayals of some famous serial killers, Edmond Kemper's is sublime, as they are interviewed to try and assess what drove them to commit their atrocious crimes (spoiler: it's usually their mums and absent dads).
Excellently acted, Jonathan Groff is a perfect antisocial, driven investigator who doesn't pull his punches and shares a lot of personality traits with those he is analysing.
This series was a gentle introduction to their methodology and starting to use it to identify who may have committed crimes - this is done at a good pace, rather than getting drawn into a "one crime per episode" mentality.