True Crime Book Club (September)

Name: True Crime Book Club (September)
Start: 2025-09-26T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-26T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 14 S. Commercial Alley, Mason City, IA, United States, Iowa 50401

Schedule

Fri Sep 26 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 book for September is A Murder in Hollywood by Casey Sherman. Copies are available in the store! You can also reserve your copy online here if you'd like: https://threebellsbooks.com/item/-Az7-_ID4T-HH-ydxkysuQ
About the book:
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
"A wild ride beneath the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood, proving once again that Casey Sherman is a master of the genre." —Ben Mezrich, New York Times bestselling author of Dumb Money, Bringing Down the House, and The Accidental Billionaires
The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown
From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turner seemed to have it all—a thriving film career, a beautiful daughter, and the kind of fame and fortune that most people could only dream of. But when the famous femme fatale began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato, thug for the infamous west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen, her personal life became violent and unpredictable. Lana's teenage daughter, Cheryl, watched her beloved mother's life deteriorate as Stompanato's intense jealousy took over. Eventually, the physical and emotional abuse became too much to bear, and Lana attempted to break it off with Johnny—with disastrous consequences. The details of what happened that fateful night remain foggy, but it ended in a series of frantic phone calls and Stompanato dead on Lana's bedroom floor, with Cheryl claiming to have plunged a knife into his abdomen in an attempt to protect her mother. The subsequent murder trial made for the biggest headlines of the year, its drama eclipsing every Hollywood movie.
New York Times bestselling author Casey Sherman pulls back Tinseltown's velvet curtain to reveal the dark underbelly of celebrity, rife with toxic masculinity and casual violence against women, and tells the story of Lana Turner and her daughter, who finally stood up to the abuse that plagued their family for years. A Murder in Hollywood transports us back to the golden age of film and illuminates one of the 20th century's most notorious true crime tales.