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Click on a January Bestseller to purchase Bestselling novelist Patricia Cornwell (Isle of Dogs, Body of Evidence) here enters the realm of non-fiction with Portrait of a Killer, a work that claims to have the skinny on the infamous 19th century serial killer, Jack the Ripper: including the Ripper's true identity. Respected author/historian Max Arthur (The True Glory, Northern Ireland Soldiers Talking and others) gained access to -- and culled -- the Imperial War Museum's archive of over 2500 interviews with World War I veterans. Collected in a project that began in 1960, these are, indeed, Forgotten Voices. Some of the tapes are over 20 hours long and many have never before been transcribed. A mini storm has been brewing over the long-hoarded scribblings of late lamented rocker Kurt Cobain who committed suicide in the mid-1990s at the age of 27. The title -- Journals -- is rather an overstatement: these are but the snippets that widow Courtney Love has approved for publication. And, as snippets go, most of this stuff isn't all that revealing: a lot of whining, a lot of sighing, predictable confusion and even the great one's doodles. (The book's pages are actual reproductions of Cobain's journal entries. Presumably, typesetting it all wouldn't have made for a big enough book.) Cobain fans either love or hate this one: but all of them seem to be reading it. Two decades of bestselling novels don't seem to have slowed Maeve Binchy down, nor prompted her to alter her course. Binchy fans will be delighted with Quentins, especially as characters from earlier books -- Tara Road, Evening Class and Scarlet Feather -- get to throw their two cents in, as well.
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