True Crime Book Club (August)

Name: True Crime Book Club (August)
Start: 2025-08-22T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-08-22T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401

Schedule

Fri Aug 22 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401 | Mason City, IA

Welcome to our newest book club, crime junkies! We'll meet every 4th Friday of the month at 5:30 pm to discuss con artists, dastardly deeds, and general menace. Our August book is College Girl, Missing by Shawn Cohen. Meetings last about an hour and discussions are led by one of our staff bookworms. This is a casual, no-commitment book club. There is no fee but we'd appreciate you buying the book club book from us or making another purchase of your choice while you're here. This will help us keep events like this going. Copies are available in the store now. You can also reserve your copy online here: https://threebellsbooks.com/item/yxefp03frD6gww9kONsDlw
About the book:
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads… Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." —David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced Lie
She visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there... until she was gone.
College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired.
But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret. And one warm June evening, after heading out with friends, she seemingly vanished. When investigators retraced Lauren's last steps using eyewitness accounts and security camera footage, the evidence ended at the doorstep of a group of wealthy, well-connected male students.
With original reporting including new testimony witnesses never shared with police, College Girl, Missing takes readers back to that fateful night and dives into the disappearance that captured front-page headlines around the world. Investigative journalist Shawn Cohen breaks more than a decade of silence as he pursues the truth: what really happened to Lauren Spierer?