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1 author picked The 6th Family as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was drawn to the historical aspect of this book, and the names dropped on its pages, such as Marilyn Monroe and John F. Kennedy, to name a couple. As a lover of history and mystery, there are few things more intriguing to me than the number of conspiracy theories involving these two mega-icons.

This book is fiction, but so strewn with possibly actual events that it reads like fact, and it kept my heart a-thumping with every turn of the page. The words conjured an actual movie in my head, depicting events that probably didn’t happen but could have!

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