GIPL Crimetime

Books discussed by the GIPL Crimetime True Crime Book Club

Updated September 24, 2025
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Starkweather : the untold story of the killing spree that changed America
MacLean, Harry N.
Paper Book
THE DEFINITIVE STORY OF CHARLES STARKWEATHER, often considered to be the first mass killer in the modern age of America "Starkweather is a story about a different time in a different America . . . [A] grim story, and that grimness is the paradoxical joy of reading MacLean--the...

January 2024

In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Capote, Truman
Audiobook
The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the...

July 2024

The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
Larson, Erik
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to...

July 2025

The Amish wife : unraveling the lies, secrets, and conspiracy that let a killer go free
Olsen, Gregg
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Amish and reveals the conspiracy to keep it a secret in a heartbreaking and horrifying true-crime story. In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman...

November 2025


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