Bookshop Interview with Author Doug Kari (Episode #223)

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Doug Kari discusses his debut true crime novel, The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime. In this book, Doug chronicles the 1986 disappearance of Barry Berman, heir to the Kahlua fortune, and his wife, Louise, from Saline Valley, CA, located in the Mojave Desert and one of the most remote locations in the United States. Their bodies were eventually discovered by the local sheriff’s office, but the double homicide was never solved, and no one was ever arrested, let alone convicted, for their murders. After years of research, investigation, and interviews, Doug names the most likely suspect and details how he linked the murders to an overseas sex crimes and trafficking case. In this episode, I’ll chat with Doug about his writing journey, how he heard about the Berman case on one of his own trips to Saline Valley, and why his grandmother is the reason he became so interested in the desert.

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