Love Me to Death: A Journalist's Memoir of the Hunt for Her Friend's Killer.

In 1994, a man confessed to having brutally murdered several women with whom he'd had love affairs. Missing from Ricardo Caputo's confession was the murder of New York philanthropist Jacqui Bernard, with whom Caputo had been linked by a private detective. Journalist Linda Wolfe, an acquaintance of Bernard, was drawn to the case, and in her book investigates the true life crimes of Caputo.

Over three years, Wolfe pored through diaries and letters and questioned cops, witnesses, family members, and Caputo. The book is also a kind of self-portrait, offering an...