Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the Kindle ARC in exchange for an honest review. Alice Crimmins' children went missing on a summer night in 1963. Alice lived a lifestyle that wasn't widely approved of in that time period. She was separated from her husband, was attractive and dressed to show her figure, wore makeup and saw men outside her marriage. She was immediately a suspect in her young son and daughter's deaths, not because of any incriminating evidence - just based on the fact that she wasn't a woman of "morals." The children were found dead a few days after their disappearance and the police and press did all they could in their power to incriminate and charge her in the crime. Anais Renevier has accurately portraited a grim reality for women - based on their appearances. Times were different in 1963 but her treatment compared to the many male suspects in the case was blatantly and suspiciously different. I wasn't familiar with this case before reading this book and I'm glad I did because it was an eye-opener and put together very well.

I recieved an ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Overall, I enjoyed the book and found it to be very informative. The facts were laid out clearly and a list of sources were included. The book does focus on the bias that Alice Crimmins faced, which is logical as that is what made her case famous.

A lot of "true crime" pieces tend more towards fiction or personal opinion than I am sometimes comfortable with, that wasn't the case here. There were one or two instances where I would have liked the author to include her sources as a footnote though. It would have made it easier to reference her source material than digging though the list of sources at the end of the book.

I'm not sure this case was an accurate choice for this series. The Fifty States Of Crime features an in depth account of famous crimes from each of the 50 states. This book, however, does not focus on the actual murder of the two children. It focuses on the disastrous handling of the crime and the persecution of Alice Crimmins by not only the police but society as a whole. And, while I would argue that, in and of itself, is criminal, it doesn't actually meet the criteria.

I was a bit off put by the ending of the book. Alice Crimmins entire life was ruined by how she was persecuted. This book details years of torment and highlights, very sympathetically, the suffering she endured. The author notes that Alice chose to go into hiding, living as a recluse, and that she vigilantly guards her privacy. Then the author admits to invading her privacy by tracking her down via voter registration records, comments on the irony of her being a Republican, and then stalking her. The author not only leaks her general location to the public, she admits to calling her, writing her, even sitting outside Alices building hoping to catch her walking the dog. It's an invasion of privacy and a continuation of the nightmare this poor woman has lived with for decades. I didn't like it.

I received a free copy of, The Alice Crimmins Case, by Anais Renevier, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. In New York in 1965, brother Eddie 5, and his sister Missy, 4 were found murdered, their mom Alice Crimmins was the main suspect. There was a time when a mother would be the last person suspected of murdering their children, how times have changed. I remember watching a tv show about this case, this was a good read.

This was a really well done true crime nonfiction book, it does a great job in telling the Alice Crimmins story in a respectful way and was researched perfectly. I thought this was a great way to tell the story and Anais Renevier had a great writing style.