Mr. Death's blue-eyed girls

In the 1950s, author Mary Downing Hahn was deeply affected by the murder of two teenage girls near Washington D.C. She was haunted by the occurrence for so long that she finally decided to write a book about it. In this telling, narrated by fictional Nora, the girls live in Baltimore County and are completely fictionalized. The book jumps around, at times thrilling and at others dwelling too much on Nora's inner thoughts. The 50s atmosphere was forced a bit but I did enjoy taking an intimate look at that era. Not an unpleasant read, though not one I was racing to at the end of the day either.