True Crime Book Club
The Pit by Ryan Green
Tuesday, October 27
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Hoover Public Library
#Friends Meeting RoomEnjoy playing armchair detective? Fascinated by cold cases? This book club is for you!
To join via Zoom, please click this Zoom Meeting Link.
He called it salvation. They called it hell.
By day, Gary Heidnik was a man of God with money, charisma, and a growing congregation. But behind closed doors, he was building a torture chamber by hand and filling it with women.
His victims were some of society’s most vulnerable. He lured them with promises of food, safety, and salvation. Instead, they were shackled in the basement, starved, raped, and beaten into silence. Heidnik controlled everything: their pain, their survival, their very breath.
This is the shocking true story of the six women who were buried in silence and the monster who built a nightmare beneath his home.
It’s a tale of survival, madness, and the horrifying power of control.
You’ve heard of serial killers.
You’ve heard of cult leaders.
But you’ve never heard of The Pit.
Hoover Public Library
Hoover Public Library
| Mon, Jul 27 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Tue, Jul 28 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Wed, Jul 29 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Thu, Jul 30 | 9:00AM to 9:00PM |
| Fri, Jul 31 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Aug 01 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Aug 02 | 1:00PM to 5:00PM |
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