The book is a provocative, deeply researched tale of a girl named Sally Horner who was kidnapped near her home in Camden, New Jersey, in 1948 at the age of 11 and sexually abused for years before authorities caught up with her tormentor, Frank La Salle, in a trailer park across the country in San Jose, California. It’s called, simply, “The Crime Lady.” It’s likely she’ll reach an even bigger audience with her new book, “The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World.” In 2015 she launched a newsletter offering interviews with authors as well as book recommendations. She has edited an anthology of crime stories for Penguin (the 2013 work “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories From the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense”) and a boxed set for the Library of America (in 2015, “Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s”). She has written about crime, or crime stories, for BuzzFeed, The New Republic, The New York Times, Slate, The Nation, and the New York Post, among other publications. In the past decade and a half, Weinman has established herself as one of the country’s leading curators, critics and producers of crime stories. She’s known for the focus of what she reads the most - crime stories of all kinds, from mystery novels, to thrillers, to true crime books and magazine stories - and for her analysis of these texts. But Weinman isn’t known simply for her remarkable reading stats.
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