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28.0044% OFF$15.69 at Amazon For fans of: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Decades before the rise of the internet, podcasts and Netflix documentaries, true crime books were the OG vehicle ...

Joseph Kanon (The Good German, Los Alamos) makes Shanghai a Casablanca-worthy setting for World War II-era intrigue. It’s 1938 and some Jews fleeing Nazi Germany’s violence ended up in Shanghai. It’s ...

There's a certain allure to true-crime stories that draws in readers. Some true-crime books tell stories otherwise untold — while others provide a unique perspective on highly publicized crimes. The ...

Harlan Coben is known for keeping readers on their toes with his killer mystery novels — but how much inspiration does the ...

The popularity of the true crime genre has sparked numerous think pieces about how to distinguish diverting entertainment from harmful voyeurism. This season, several novelists, some of them former ...

The first True Crime book I ever read was Robert Graysmith’s Zodiac—I spent my allowance on a trade-sized copy and was hooked. It’s (famously) his story of being a political cartoonist at the San ...

In the heart of REO Town, Lansing, lies Deadtime Stories: True Crime and Other Books bookstore, full of true crime and horror books and trinkets. The store has been open since 2021, and recently ...

Sarah Weinman, who writes a monthly crime and mystery column for the Book Review, discussed her niche. By Katherine J. Igoe A murder in a Northern California coastal town. The unsolved case of a girl ...