The Third Rainbow Girl, (Paperback)

from Susan.Macura

I picked this book up to read about a crime that occurred years ago in West Virginia where two women were found shot and killed on their way to a festival there. I was interested in how this crime was resolved but was a little disappointed in how much of the book was devoted to the ramblings of t...

from marquis784

The Third Rainbow Girl: The long life of a double murder in the Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg January 21, 2020 Hachette Books True crime, nonfiction Rating: 3/5 I received a digital ARC copy of this book from NetGalley and Hachette Books in exchange for an unbiased review. This book is m...

from RidgewayGirl

In 1980, a festival called the Rainbow Gathering was held in a National Park deep in West Virginia's Pocahontas county. Attended by hippies and free spirits, some of the local residents were not pleased with the influx of outsiders. Then two young women on their way to the Gathering were found mu...

from carolfoisset

This was a tough book to rate. To me, the memoir/true crime/history of Appalachia/psychology themes of the book were a bit too much and made the book disjointed. I liked the author's writing and think she has real talent, but the flow was off to me. I was listening to it so that may be part of th...

from EllenH

As Carmen Machado said," this is true Crime, reportage, Memoir, and sociological reckoning", and what a social reckoning! So much more to this book than the story of two hitchhikers killed in Appalachia.