True Crime

Updated September 23, 2024
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Tremors in the blood : murder, obsession and the birth of the lie detector
Katwala, Amit
Paper Book
BEWARE WHAT YOU BELIEVE: This "rollicking true crime" story reveals the surprising origins of the lie detector through shocking murders and dramatic trials (WIRED). "Everything a reader wants in a true crime book--murder, mystery, gunfights, courtroom theatrics and...
363.254 Katwala 2023
Tangled vines : power, privilege, and the Murdaugh family murders
Glatt, John
Paper Book
2024 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME NOVEL In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh. <...
364.1523 Murdaugh Glatt 2023
American demon : Eliot Ness and the hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
Stashower, Daniel
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness. Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great...
364.1523 Ness Stashower 2022
I know who you are : how an amateur DNA sleuth unmasked the Golden State Killer and changed crime fighting forever
Rae-Venter, Barbara
Paper Book
EDGAR AWARD FINALIST ."A true-crime masterpiece written by a cold-case-cracking master."-John Douglas, New York Times bestselling co-author of Mindhunter "Barbara Rae-Venter isn't just the genealogy expert who helped capture the Golden State Killer-she's an...
364.1523 Rae-Venter Rae-Venter 2023
Little, crazy children : a true crime tragedy
Renner, James
Paper Book
For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This Week and The Philosophy of Crime, as he explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the real...

364.1523 Renner 2023

Roll red roll : rape, power, and football in the American heartland
Schwartzman, Nancy
Paper Book
**A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection** An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile and systemic undercurrents that enable sexual violence, and ...
364.1532 Schwartzman 2022
The other Dr. Gilmer : two men, a murder, and an unlikely fight for justice
Gilmer, Benjamin
Paper Book
A powerful true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal--an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time "A remarkable medical detective story...
364.38 Gilmer, Vince Gilmer 2022

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