Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books about true crimes
True Crime
Recommended books found: 44
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Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
by Erika Krouse
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open.
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Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by Sarah Weinman
Hardcover: Feb 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him - including conservative thinker William F. Buckley - into helping set him free
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Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Hardcover: Nov 2022
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.
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The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place
by David Sheff
Hardcover: Aug 2020
Paperback: Jun 2021
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America's most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by Eric Eyre
Hardcover: Mar 2020
Paperback: Apr 2021
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills ...
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2021
The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism.
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by Jerry Mitchell
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2021
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the "Mississippi Burning" case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though...
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Hardcover: Jan 2020
Paperback: Jan 2021
A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community.
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