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True Crime Book Club meets on the second Thursday of the month. Murders, heists, kidnappings, fraudโwe read and discuss true stories about them all. Conspire with us to share your โwhodunnitโ theories at our friendly gathering of this fascinating genre.
Note: Book selections are non-fiction, and may contain disturbing content. Reader discretion is advised.
๐๐ป ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐๐ฒ'๐น๐น ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐๐๐ "๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฏ๐ผ๐๐ ๐จ๐: ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐น, ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐๐" ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐๐-๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐๐ผ๐ป
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AN EDGAR AWARDS 2020 WINNER AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.
Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents.
Axton's family changed all of their personal information and moved to different addresses, but the identity thief followed them wherever they went. Convinced that the thief had to be someone they knew, Axton and her parents completely cut off the outside world, isolating themselves from friends and family. Axton learned not to let anyone into the house without explicit permission, and once went as far as chasing a plumber off their property with a knife.
As a result, Axton spent her formative years crippled by anxiety, quarantined behind the closed curtains in her childhood home. She began starving herself at a young age in an effort to blend in--her appearance could be nothing short of perfect or she would be scolded by her mother, who had become paranoid and consumed by how others perceived the family.
Years later, her parents' marriage still shaken from the theft, Axton discovered that she, too, had fallen prey to the identity thief, but by the time she realized, she was already thousands of dollars in debt and her credit was ruined.
The Less People Know About Us is Axton's attempt to untangle an intricate web of lies, and to understand why and how a loved one could have inflicted such pain. Axton will present a candid, shocking, and redemptive story and reveal her courageous effort to grapple with someone close that broke the unwritten rules of love, protection, and family.
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