Frank Calabrese, Jr. with Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman, and Paul Pompian, Operation Family Secrets (New York: Random House, 2011)

OK, I might have picked up this book just because it was about organized crime in Chicago during the time that I lived there. But when our daughter became engaged to a man named Calabrese, I decided to read this tell-all about how a son raised in a crime family could make the decision to blow the whistle on the business and go straight.

The book gives an inside view of something that someone like me would not otherwise see: the inside of a crime family. The reality is frightening. The story is captivating and kept me engaged from the first page to the last.

By the way, there is no known relation between the Chicago Calabreses and the young man who will soon be our son in law.