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Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A MURDER AT HARVARD AND A HALF CENTURY OF SILENCE

Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A MURDER AT HARVARD AND A HALF CENTURY OF SILENCE Book Reviews leader talk about the lack of attention to missing Indigenous women as a product of (European, Christian, patriarchal) colonialism. McDiarmid’s work on these cases has forced her to re-evaluate the Canada she learned about in school. Her personal experiences only come into play in the introduction and in one late chapter. Beyond that, the focus remains unswerving on the women and families, and on the bureaucratic failures and systemic injustices, even good intentions gone awry, to which they have been subject. This book is a triumph of investigative journalism and is likely to be useful to readers interested in crime and law enforcement as experienced from Indigenous perspectives, in race as a factor in crime and policing, in crime as a source of trauma for families and communities, trauma studies, and, more generally, in true crime. DOI: 10.3366/cfs.2022.0063 Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A MURDER AT HARVARD AND A HALF CENTURY OF SILENCE. William Heinemann, London, 2020. £18.99, 978-1-785-15198-9, 494 pages. Reviewed by Emily Farmer As readers and scholars of true crime are aware, the narrative offered by such writers conventionally places the person or persons responsible at the centre of the account, with the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A MURDER AT HARVARD AND A HALF CENTURY OF SILENCE

Farmer, Emily
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 3 (1): 3 – Mar 1, 2022
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Book Reviews leader talk about the lack of attention to missing Indigenous women as a product of (European, Christian, patriarchal) colonialism. McDiarmid’s work on these cases has forced her to re-evaluate the Canada she learned about in school. Her personal experiences only come into play in the introduction and in one late chapter. Beyond that, the focus remains unswerving on the women and families, and on the bureaucratic failures and systemic injustices, even good intentions gone awry, to which they have been subject. This book is a triumph of investigative journalism and is likely to be useful to readers interested in crime and law enforcement as experienced from Indigenous perspectives, in race as a factor in crime and policing, in crime as a source of trauma for families and communities, trauma studies, and, more generally, in true crime. DOI: 10.3366/cfs.2022.0063 Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A MURDER AT HARVARD AND A HALF CENTURY OF SILENCE. William Heinemann, London, 2020. £18.99, 978-1-785-15198-9, 494 pages. Reviewed by Emily Farmer As readers and scholars of true crime are aware, the narrative offered by such writers conventionally places the person or persons responsible at the centre of the account, with the

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Published: Mar 1, 2022

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