• New Nonfiction

    An Interview with the Hangman's Wife

    Nancy Dougherty on the uncanny experience of traveling to the Baltic Sea to interview the wife of Reinhard Heydrich.

    May 24, 2022  By Nancy Dougherty
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    A New True Crime Book Investigates a Sister's Murder and Official Indifference

    In 1978, Therese Allore vanished. Six months later, her body was discovered. Her brother is still looking for answers.

    May 20, 2022  By Peter Handel
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    "Criminal profiling has been fooling us all."

    Eric Barker on the pseudoscience of profiling.

    May 19, 2022  By Eric Barker
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    On the Trail of the Shenandoah Murders at the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases

    Why do so many cold cases go unsolved?

    May 12, 2022  By Kathryn Miles
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    Dead in the Water: How a Flailing Supertanker Illustrates The Story of Modern Shipping

    When a supertanker starts sinking, whose job is it to save it?

    May 9, 2022  By Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel
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    The Long Island Cops Who Schemed To Take Over the District Attorney's Office

    Gus Garcia-Roberts on corruption, electioneering, and how Jimmy Burke started his rise in Suffolk County.

    May 4, 2022  By Gus Garcia-Roberts
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    The Incredible, True Story of How the Government Turned Sammy Gravano, Gambino Family Underboss, Into a Cooperating Witness

    John Gleeson was a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn getting ready to put John Gotti back on trial, when he got a phone call that would change everything about the case.

    May 3, 2022  By John Gleeson
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    How Dorothy B. Hughes' In a Lonely Place Brought a New, Disturbing Kind of Noir to the Postwar American Experience

    Elizabeth D. Samet on the legacy of a postwar classic

    April 27, 2022  By Elizabeth D. Samet
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    How a "Collective Madness" in 18th Century France Led to Financial Ruin and a Scheme to Lock Up Women and Ship Them Into Exile

    Paris, 1719: After a financial panic sweeps the nation, a decision is made—convicts will be sent to work the swamps of Louisiana.

    April 19, 2022  By Joan deJean
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    Poison, Adultery, Scandal, and Murder: The Wild Lives of Journalists in 1890's San Francisco

    Mark Arsenault on the scandals that would eventually unite two journalists in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

    April 12, 2022  By Mark Arsenault
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