American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

I'm not a true crime reader, I'm not sure why. If American Fire had been fiction, I think I might be writing about how implausible I found the plot, because, dude, this story is wild. A couple goes on a spree of setting abandoned buildings on fire. I was fascinated by the whole “why” of the thing, but I also enjoyed reading about the community's response to their county being under attack. It must have been terrifying: going to bed and never knowing whose house was next. Added to that was that they knew the arsonist had to be one of their own. Shudder! I feel bad because part of me wanted to cheer this couple on. I kind of wanted them to be a Bonnie and Clyde. Maybe they were doing this to get back at a specific bank or the original landowners. Instead the story is much, much stranger.