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Dennis Littrell's True Crime Companion lets the reader snuggle up to reviews of some of the more lurid, sensational and frankly unbelievable books written about how the best laid plans of idiots, degenerates, psychopaths and other criminals can go horribly wrong-or right, depending on your point of view. Littrell highlights the JonBen t Ramsey case, and in case you were in doubt, solves it. He recalls the satanic sexual abuse hysteria of the late 1980s and early 1990s and sets the perception of what happened and why straight as a laser beam. The war on drugs? He's got a take on that. Scott Peterson, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald and other real live (but incarcerated ) American psychos? Littrell steers the reader to an appreciation of some of the best books on those sickies while making the distinction between "sociopath" and "psychopath" as clear as the DSM-IV can make it. And if that isn't enough Littrell reviews some books that demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the judicial system itself is in dire need of repair.

Theodore Roosevelt Crenshaw, "Best Heart-Throb" of his high school class, now in is early thirties is looking to get what he wants out of life regardless of what anybody thinks.He meets Pamela White, a sharp 38-year-old business woman whose sexual hunger cannot be drowned in bourbon. She makes him an offer he can't refuse.At nearly the same time he runs into Beverly Simons, a slightly neurotic, rather plump high school classmate with whom he once had a one-night stand. She is now widowed with a strikingly beautiful six-year-old daughter.Enter Jerry Weinstein, Esq., a rotund, gourmand bachelor lawyer specializing in criminal law and a very dead Bradford Vincente, the 17-year-old son of pizza king Tony "Pan-a-Mint" Vincente of Palos Verdes...Set in the South Bay beach communities of suburban Los Angeles some thirty years ago, the novel is a lurid tale of murder, lust and the inevitable consequences of ravenous appetites that can never be satisfied.