A review by mesy_mark
An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere by Mikita Brottman

dark mysterious slow-paced

3.0

 Rey River died at the Belvedere and Brottman spent ten years looking into his death obsessed with whether it really was a homicide or suicide. A neat fact is the author lives in the building the man died in and so she connects his death to the other deaths that have happened in the old building since its opening. I recorded the case from the Netflix TV show Unexplained and knew it was suspicious circumstances around his death. The author rails away through every trail that is believed to answer her nagging question. Because she is obsessed with true crime, she looks into other deaths at the building, which pads this book. It is interesting to listen to a building history of homicides/suicides as I listened to this book through audiobook format. Because it was a focus on River. we looked into his history of business as it believed his business is what killed him, It was interesting. The author made it personal by incorporating her prevalent feelings of being invisible throughout the text and how she believed it impacted her work. It did get a little confusing between jumping from one set of deaths to another and when in the timeline things were. Overall it is more than a look at one body at Belvedere although it is fully investigated but the many bodies at the building.