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True Crime Book Discussion: "A Hunger to Kill," by by Kim Mager.

2025-06-16 12:00:00 2025-06-16 13:00:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Discussion: "A Hunger to Kill," by by Kim Mager. Discuss a true crime book. Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing, "A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, A Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession that Changed a Small Town Forever" by Kim Mager. Upper Marlboro - Large Meeting Room

Monday, June 16
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-06-16 12:00:00 2025-06-16 13:00:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Discussion: "A Hunger to Kill," by by Kim Mager. Discuss a true crime book. Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing, "A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, A Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession that Changed a Small Town Forever" by Kim Mager. Upper Marlboro - Large Meeting Room

Upper Marlboro

Large Meeting Room

Discuss a true crime book. Discuss a true crime book. This month we are discussing, "A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, A Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession that Changed a Small Town Forever" by Kim Mager.

"In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on--and broke--one of Ohio's most infamous serial killers. On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be kidnapped. The man holding her hostage was Shawn Grate, a serial killer whom the press later dubbed "The Ladykiller." A key to his conviction and death sentence were Grate's extensive recorded confessions--all extracted by one woman: Detective Kim Mager. As an experienced specialist in sex offenses, Detective Mager was one of the officers assigned to Grate's case upon his arrest. Grate immediately latched onto her, repeatedly demanding to speak to her and presumably convinced that he could somehow exercise his power over her in much the same way that he'd overpowered and controlled his female victims. He was wrong. Over a period of eight days, Mager conducted one interview after another, risking her life by sitting alone in the interview room with a malevolent predator. Using brilliant psychological strategy in a lethal game of wits, Mager successfully elicited his damning confessions to five murders, kidnapping, and multiple sexual assaults of women across Ohio. Deeply personal and shocking, A Hunger to Kill takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most appalling criminal cases in American history from the woman who stopped his murderous rampage in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Lisa Pulitzer."

—From the Catalog.


Borrow the book from PGCMLS: Print | Ebook | Eaudiobook

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Discussions |

TAGS: | Book Discussion |

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