Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

“How many Reenas are there in this goddamn world?”

Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk by Rebecca Godfrey

by Leave a Comment

This is a very well written work of non-fiction. The author is in fact a writer of fiction, but she spent years investigating the crime at the center of the story (now a series on Hulu) and interviewing the many people involved. She attended trials and spoke with legal and law enforcement agents. This story of the murder of a 14-year-old girl by her peers is both chilling and difficult to put down. Godfrey paints a vivid picture of a community rocked by the shocking […]

Crime, Punishment, People

Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey

by Leave a Comment

I picked this one up in part because it was blurbed by Megan Abbott. That makes sense as it reads like a story Megan Abbott would write. And it helps that it’s a story put in the right hands of a writer such as Rebecca Godfrey, who examines the victim and those involved in her death with a critical but compassionate eye and an evocative writing style. I appreciate true crime that doesn’t wallow in violence or intrigue, but instead paints a full picture of […]



Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo