Best for: Anyone interested in a good (failed) crime story, or the human desire to just leave it all behind. In a nutshell: Author Elizabeth Greenwood explores the lengths (mostly men, usually arrogant) go through to leave behind their lives. Line that sticks with me: N/A (didn’t have a pen with me when reading it) Why I chose it: Do you listen to the “Wine and Crime” podcast? Because it’s great. And they did a whole episode on faking one’s death, including an interview with […]
Pseu-Pseu- Pseudocide
Sparked with an interest in faking her own death to avoid student loans, Elizabeth Greenwood begins investigating how realistic it is to fake your own death in the 21st century. Playing Dead follows Greenwood as she interviews people who help you disappear, people who hunt you down and the people who (briefly) lived after being declared dead. Because, you see, there is no way to know how many people have successfully faked their deaths because you only ever hear about the failures. The man who gives her […]