We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Becky Cooper

512 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism memoir true crime challenging dark reflective medium-paced

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Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard and an "exhilarating and seductive" (Ariel...

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Moods

dark 77%
informative 65%
mysterious 64%
reflective 47%
challenging 41%
sad 40%
emotional 32%
tense 25%
adventurous 4%
hopeful 2%
inspiring 1%

Pace

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medium 45%
fast 6%

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