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Murderland

Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

by Caroline Fraser

Hardcover: Jun 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...

A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

by Dean Jobb

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the...

London Falling

A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the...

The Blood Countess

Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster

by Shelley Puhak

Hardcover: Feb 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the author of the national bestseller The Dark Queens, an incandescent work of true crime and feminist history about the woman alleged to be the world's most prolific female serial killer.

Death in the Jungle

Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown

by Candace Fleming

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious ...

Tell Me Everything

The Story of a Private Investigation

by Erika Krouse

Hardcover: Mar 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2023

Critics' Consensus:

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.

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

Critics' Consensus:

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

Con/Artist

The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi

Hardcover: Nov 2022

Critics' Consensus:

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.

The Buddhist on Death Row

How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place

by David Sheff

Hardcover: Aug 2020 | Paperback: Jun 2021

Critics' Consensus:

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.

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

Critics' Consensus:

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 ...

Yellow Bird

Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

by Sierra Crane Murdoch

Hardcover: Feb 2020 | Paperback: Feb 2021

Critics' Consensus:

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.

Race Against Time

A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

by Jerry Mitchell

Hardcover: Feb 2020 | Paperback: Feb 2021

Critics' Consensus:

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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