Left Bank Book Presents Billy Jensen to Discuss New Book: "Killer Amidst Killers"

Left Bank Books welcomes bestselling author, hit podcast co-host, and true-crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen, who will discuss his exhilarating new true-crime book, "Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic", in person at the Ethical Society of St. Louis and virtually at 7pm CT on July 23rd. Jensen will be in conversation with author and Washington University Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Heather Berg. Tickets are available at Left-Bank.com for the in-person event or virtual event. Each ticket will include one copy of "Killers Amidst Killers" from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores! 

Billy Jensen has solved more than a half dozen homicides and helped find missing persons. Law enforcement agencies reach out to him to help in cases that have them stumped, using him as a "consulting detective." The New York native has written crime stories for Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Magazine, Boston Magazine, and Miami New Times, was managing editor of the Long Island Press and a crime stringer for the New York Times. After his friend Michelle McNamara suddenly passed away, he and her researcher helped finish her book "I'll Be Gone in the Dark" about the hunt for the Golden State Killer, which became a NYT #1 bestseller. Jensen's own true crime memoir, "Chase Darkness with Me", was a NYT bestseller. He was featured heavily in the HBO docuseries I'll Be Gone in the Dark and produces and stars in the Discovery+ series Unraveled. He is co-host of the podcasts The First Degree and Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad.

Heather Berg writes about sex, work, and social struggle. Her book "Porn Work" (UNC Press, 2021) takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. It tells a story of crafty workers, faltering managers, and shifting solidarities. Her second project, "Sex Workers Against Work," is an intellectual history of the sex worker left. It engages anti-capitalist sex workers' critiques of straight work, unpaid sex, and state violence and explores their experiments with alternatives. Professor Berg's research and teaching interests include sexuality studies, Marxist feminist and queer thought, and resistance studies. Her research appears in Signs, Feminist Studies, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Porn Studies, and has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and El País. At Washington University, she teaches courses on Sexuality and the State, Sex and Money, Everyday Unruliness, and Feminist Theory.

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