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Registration opens:
October 17th, 2025

True Crime Book Club

"Long Haul" by Frank Figliuzzi

2025-11-17 13:00:00 2025-11-17 14:00:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Club Former FBI assistant director reveals how the agency sought to combat the more than 850 murders associated with America's interstate system and long-haul truckers. Westlake Porter Public Library - Dover Room

Monday, November 17
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-17 13:00:00 2025-11-17 14:00:00 America/New_York True Crime Book Club Former FBI assistant director reveals how the agency sought to combat the more than 850 murders associated with America's interstate system and long-haul truckers. Westlake Porter Public Library - Dover Room

Former FBI assistant director reveals how the agency sought to combat the more than 850 murders associated with America's interstate system and long-haul truckers.

A great way to discover and discuss new and classic true crime writing—from murder, to robbery, heists and arson—we touch on every aspect of humanity's darker instincts.

This month we will read "Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers" by former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi.

From Amazon:

"A true-crime masterpiece." —Don Winslow

A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime)

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved murders along American roadways. Today at least 850 homicides have been linked to a solitary breed of predators: long-haul truck drivers. They have been given names like the “Truck Stop Killer,” who rigged a traveling torture chamber in the rear of his truck and is suspected to have killed fifty women, and “The Interstate Strangler,” who once answered a phone call from his mother while killing one of his dozen victims. The crisis was such that the FBI opened a special unit, the Highway Serial Killings Initiative. In many cases, the victims—often at-risk women—are picked up at truck stops in one jurisdiction, sexually assaulted and murdered in another, and dumped along a highway in a third place. The transient nature of the offenders and multiple jurisdictions involved make these cases incredibly difficult to solve.

Based on his own on-the-ground research and drawing on his twenty-five-year career as an FBI special agent, Frank Figliuzzi investigates the most terrifying cases. He also rides in a big-rig with a long-haul trucker for thousands of miles, gaining an intimate understanding of the life and habits of drivers and their roadside culture. And he interviews the courageous trafficked victims of these crimes, and their inspiring efforts to now help others avoid similar fates.

Long Haul is a gripping exploration of a violent, disordered world hiding in plain sight, and the heroes racing to end the horror. It will forever unsettle how you travel on the road.

Shortlisted for four 2025 True Crime Awards


We meet on the third Monday of every other month starting in January. View and print the list of books and check out WPPL's Book Discussion page for more book and movie clubs!

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books and Authors |

TAGS: | True Crime | book discussion |

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Westlake Porter Public Library is an independent public library serving the residents of the city of Westlake, western Cuyahoga County and eastern Lorain County. The library is located at 27333 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, Ohio. Anyone who lives, works, owns property, or goes to school in Ohio can register for a free library card.

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