A review by probably_reading_right_now
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne

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5.0

This was one of those I definitely wasn’t expecting to like as much as I did, but I still can’t stop thinking about this story. The way this story was told read almost like a fiction to me because a lot of nonfiction can tend to read like a series of facts being stated rather then a story being built, and this story was just so well told I felt like I could have been there experiencing it myself. She was so charming, and charismatic in the way she told her own story I can definitely see how she stole so much right under people’s own noses. At the end Doris says “So now you know the true story of Doris Payne. Did I imagine some of this, make it up, elaborate it, polish it like a good diamond, make you want to look at it—make you smile? You have to decide. And you have to tell people what they want to hear. You have to let people see what they want to believe. You have to believe it first.” The saying “there’s your side, their side, and the truth” comes to mind and whatever the truth may be this was a great story.