With Tori Telfer at the wheel, reading these tales of plunder—littered with diamonds, fancy cars, mansions, booze and furs—is a fun, spicy romp.
In Last Call, Elon Green foregrounds the Last Call Killer’s known victims, showing us the people they were and the lives they left behind.
Bad Medicine reveals how indifferent people within systems intended to improve vulnerable people’s lives are behind America’s opioid problem.
When two teenage girls from a farming region in India were found hanging from a tree, it lay bare caste divisions, family strife and political corruption.
In The Woman Who Stole Vermeer, Anthony M. Amore expertly combines extraordinary history with gripping true crime.
For decades, rumors suggested that a Harvard archeology professor had killed his student. Becky Cooper finally decided to find out.
In The Modern Detective, Tyler Maroney explains why the work of corporate investigators is not only fascinating but also vitally important to the public.
The comics medium is the perfect vehicle for a stylized retelling of a true crime story, as Brooklyn-based cartoonist Katie Skelly proves.
Debora Harding has not one but two mesmerizing stories to tell, and the emotional honesty of her razor-sharp prose will hook readers on page one.
In Unspeakable Acts, editor and author Sarah Weinman has curated an excellent anthology of 13 of the best articles and essays on true crime.
The authors have crafted an eye-opening look at how #MeToo took off, sharing details about how they located sources and persuaded them to talk about Weinstein.
An electrifying account of the fall of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein and the difficulties Farrow faced in bringing the media mogul’s story to light.
Searingly honest and deftly written, Mercy is Marcia Trahan’s story of a unique psychological journey that ends in satisfying self-revelation.
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