GIPL Crimetime

Books discussed by the GIPL Crimetime True Crime Book Club

Updated September 22, 2025
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In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
Capote, Truman
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no...

July 2024

The man from the train : the solving of a century-old serial killer mystery
James, Bill
Paper Book
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, The Man from the Train is an "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal). In this groundbreaking work of historical true crime, legendary statistician and...

May 2025

This month was a "Bring Your Own Book" discussion: any book written about the Villisca (Iowa) Ax Murders

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


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