The Borden murders

I'm not really into true crime/mysteries but I do love a lady with an axe, and also I was looking for high-interest nonfiction to booktalk, so I picked this up. I didn't know that much about Lizzie Borden so I definitely learned a lot from this, and I think tweens/teens/people who are more interested in crime procedurals in general will dig it. It does a good job of presenting all the evidence (and lack of evidence) in a way that's interesting but not sensationalized. The end is inconclusive, which might be unsatisfying for younger readers, but I appreciate that it's honest and thoughtful, that there's just not enough evidence to be certain either way! Could be a good discussion topic too.

A quibble: a lot of time is spent talking about how shocking the photos of the bodies/crime scene were...and then there's a section of photos included...that doesn't have those pictures!! C'mon you know that's what all the kids want. (One of them is included in a later photo section and it's really not that gory/bad...it's black and white & you can't really tell what's happening. And you can look at them all online anyway. BUT C'MON just put the murder photos in your murder book!!)

anyway, kids love murder, so this should be a great one to booktalk.