Book Review: The Kidnap Years

The Kidnap Years

The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America

by David Stout

SOURCEBOOKS (non-fiction)

Sourcebooks

History.

True Crime

Pub Date 07 Apr 2020

I am reviewing a copy of The Kidnap Years through Sourcebooks and Netgalley:

The Great Depression in America was a time of great desperation, as parents struggled simply to feed their children, and unemployed brother levels were at record highs.

Adding to the lawlessness of the Great Depression thugs with submachine guns and corrupt law-enforcement officers ran rampant. But in the panic there was a sure fire way to make money, it was one used by criminals and resourceful civilians as well, that was kidnapping.

Edgar Award winning author David Stout allows us to jump into this forgotten history. He does so by exploring. the horrifying details of these abduction cases, from the methods used and the investigative processes to the personal histories of the culprits and victims. This all cumulates to the most infamous kidnapping in American history. The one that targeted an international legend and changed kidnapping laws forever, The Lindbergh kidnapping.

I give The Kidnap Years five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!