Books by John Glatt and Complete Book Reviews
John Glatt, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $19.95 (306p) ISBN 978-1-55972-205-6
Bill Graham, the flamboyant rock concert promoter whose life, as depicted here, was a quest for sex, drugs, megabucks and stardom, arrived in the U.S. as a penniless eight-year-old refugee in 1939. Born Wolodia Grajonca in Berlin, he lost his father
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John Glatt, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-19326-3
Before there was Di, there was Grace--personable, stylish and the casualty of an unusual car crash. Those readers enchanted by the fairy tale of Grace Kelly's marriage to Prince Rainier should find this latest examination of the Grimaldi family...
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John Glatt, Author Plume Books $12.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-55611-440-3
If the deluge of tabloid stories about River Phoenix's death from a drug overdose only whetted your appetite for dirty details about the actor's life, you'll find plenty of juice in Lost in Hollywood. Yet Glatt, the author of Rage and Roll: Bill...
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John Glatt, Author St. Martin's Press $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-16605-2
The Chieftains, who perform on harp, bodhran (goat-skin drum), whistles, flutes, fiddles, pipes, drones and bones, have become world-famous for their revival of traditional Irish music. This comprehensive biography, based on interviews with band...
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John Glatt. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-03572-1
From the provocative opening sentence (“When retired police chief James Scarberry heard in July 2009 that Ben Novack Jr. had been brutally murdered, with his eyes gouged out, he was not surprised.”), true-crime veteran Glatt (Love Her to Death)...
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John Glatt. Lyons, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7627-8865-1
Glatt expands his first book, Rage and Roll: Bill Graham and the Selling of Rock, with this grand history of the Fillmore concert halls of San Francisco and New York City. Using to great effect his original interviews and a wide-ranging selection of
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John Glatt. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-20213-0
On a January day in 2018, an emaciated teenage girl in Perris, Calif., escaped from the home where she and her 12 siblings were cruelly and systematically abused. Writing in a candid, unemotional prose style, bestseller Glatt (The Lost Girls) tells...
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John Glatt. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-23161-1
On Aug. 14, 2018, Christopher Lee Watts announced to several Denver, Colo., news stations that his pregnant wife, Shanann, and two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, were missing, and he begged them to come back home. Within 24 hours, Watts, whom...
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John Glatt. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-27102-0
In this disturbing account, bestseller Glatt (The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder) chronicles the life and trial of Tommy Gilbert Jr., who sent shock waves through New York City’s upper...
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John Glatt. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-27667-4
This chilling narrative from bestseller Glatt (Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite) does justice to the case of Lori Vallow, who is accused of plotting the 2019 killings of her 16-year-old daughter, Tylee, and her seven-year-old son, J.J.
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John Glatt. St. Martin’s, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-28348-1
Bestseller Glatt (The Doomsday Mother) tells the stranger-than-fiction saga of South Carolina’s Murdaugh family in this exemplary work of true crime. While many readers will be familiar with the allegations that attorney Alex Murdaugh killed his...
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