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The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

The Best New Crime Nonfiction Books: February and March 2022

The Bloody Benders, the search for the Zodiac, an accidental private eye, and more.

By CrimeReads | March 29, 2022

<em>The Conversation</em>: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the

The Conversation: Coppola's Paranoid Classic and the "Era of the Listening Device"

Brian Hochman on the 1974 wiretap thriller that captured the rise of a surveillance society.

By Brian Hochman | March 22, 2022

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

The Bizarre, Self-Incriminating Confession of Pam Hupp

On a strange incident in the true story that forms the basis for the show The Thing About Pam.

By Charles Bosworth Jr. and Joel J. Schwartz | March 18, 2022

People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

People Have Always Told Me Their Secrets. That's Why I Became A Private Investigator.

Erika Krouse on having the kind of face that spurs others to reveal their fears, anxieties, and darkest revelations.

By Erika Krouse | March 18, 2022

What Life Was Like for an Undercover Federal Agent Prospecting with the Pagans, the Outlaw Motorcycle Club

What Life Was Like for an Undercover Federal Agent Prospecting with the Pagans, the Outlaw Motorcycle Club

Ken Croke was an experienced undercover federal agent—and the first to infiltrate the Pagans.

By Ken Croke and Dave Wedge | March 16, 2022

A Brief History of Fugitives In America

A Brief History of Fugitives In America

Chas Smith goes on the lam to find the heart of outlaw culture.

By Chas Smith | March 15, 2022

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The Canadian Spy Novelist Ordered To Reveal His Sources

By Luke Beirne | March 11, 2022

How the Bounty Mutineers Found Their New Home on a Secret Pacific Island

By Brandon Presser | March 10, 2022

Sex and the City: The Spectacular Love Life of Mafia Boss Sonny Franzese

By S. J. Peddie | March 10, 2022

The Unusual, Unsettling Crimes of the Other Dr. Gilmer

The Unusual, Unsettling Crimes of the Other Dr. Gilmer

"In rural Appalachia, a man with my name and my profession strangled his father in the passenger seat of his Toyota Tacoma."

By Dr. Benjamin Gilmer | March 3, 2022

The Murders in 1970s Montana That Finally Brought the FBI's Profiling Program Into the Field

The Murders in 1970s Montana That Finally Brought the FBI's Profiling Program Into the Field

They had interviewed dozens of killers. But their theories were untested in an active investigation.

By Ron Franscell | March 2, 2022

A Corporate Headhunter Spills His Secrets

A Corporate Headhunter Spills His Secrets

Clients were desperate for the non-public intelligence provided by elite headhunters. That's where the ruse came in.

By Robert Kerbeck | March 2, 2022

Who Was Victoria Zielinski? And Who Would She Have Become, If Not For Her Murder?

Who Was Victoria Zielinski? And Who Would She Have Become, If Not For Her Murder?

Read from the new book by Sarah Weinman, Scoundrel.

By Sarah Weinman | March 1, 2022

How One Writer's Research Shed New Light on the Century-Old

How One Writer's Research Shed New Light on the Century-Old "Bloody Bender" Mystery

Susan Jonusas explains how an intense archival investigation led to new insights on one of the American West's most notorious crimes.

By Susan Jonusas | March 1, 2022

A Brief History of Xenophobia In America

A Brief History of Xenophobia In America

Anti-immigrant sentiment goes back to our nation's founding, and has always been accompanied by state-sanctioned violence.

By Patrick Strickland | February 23, 2022

The Socialite, Property Developer, Press Manipulator, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

The Socialite, Property Developer, Press Manipulator, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

Elizabeth Chudleigh was better known as the Duchess Countess. Her scandals exposed hypocrisy at the heart of European society.

By Catherine Ostler | February 17, 2022

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