Ethan Brown
Autor de Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?
Sobre El Autor
Ethan Brown is a senior software engineer at Pop Art, an interactive marketing agency in Portland, Oregon. He's responsible for the architecture and implementation of web applications for clients ranging from small businesses to international enterprises.
Obras de Ethan Brown
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1972-06-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
True Crime (1)
También Puede Gustarte
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 418
- Popularidad
- #58,321
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 29
- ISBNs
- 34
Brown's book has a journalistic tone, and he thankfully steers away from salacious detail. Instead, he shares the fruits of his exhaustive investigations, which include reviewing thousands of pages of police records and conducting extensive interviews. The book is a distillation of these efforts and is a cogent argument for possible police involvement in the murders themselves.
If you do not like to keep up with a large cast of characters, this book may not be for you. Jennings, Louisiana is small, but there are a lot of parties involved, and they have the enmeshment that will be familiar to people from small towns. Brown provides very helpful guides to aid the reader in knowing who's who. I often flipped to them, but Brown also does an admirable job of describing the players well, which makes it easier to keep people straight. There is also a timeline that helps provide context.
The book reads like an exposé, uncovering scandals in the Jennings police department and in higher levels of government. He assembles his case carefully but does not include excess details-- that said, there is still a lot of detail, because it's the nature of this particular case.… (más)