By Lesley Downer. In her extensive and readable blend of reportage and history, Lesley Downer takes us into the secrets of what was once a closed world and even now, on the verge of extinction, is a veiled one. The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America. By Kent Walker with Mark Schone. Had Sante Kimes' lifetime of crime not turned murderous, her exploits still would have made for great reading.
Con artists are unfailingly intriguing.
But when Kimes and her son Kenny were convicted of murder after New York socialite Irene Silverman disappeared in 1998, her story took on a different cast. As related by her other son, Kent Walker, her life is a dizzying, inconceivable and ultimately sad tale of greed and pathology. By Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel. The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. By Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum and Philip Gabriel.