• New Nonfiction

    November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

    Offshore exploits, Dostoevsky's murderer, and America's first civil war.

    November 19, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    The Serrata del Marchante: From Spaghetti Western Set to Cowboy Theme Park

    Sergio Leone filmed "For A Few Dollars More" in the Spanish desert, now a destination for tourists rather than filmmakers.

    November 19, 2021  By Nick Hunt
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    The Bloomingdale Story: Read the Never-Before Published Patricia Highsmith Draft That Would Become Carol (The Price of Salt)

    A rare gem from Highsmith's newly released diaries and notebooks, with annotations from the author and her editor.

    November 16, 2021  By Patricia Highsmith
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    What Dostoevsky Learned About Freedom and Murder From His Fellow Convicts in Siberia

    Throughout his time in a Siberian prison camp, Dostoevsky was observing life and making secret notes for his future masterpiece.

    November 16, 2021  By Kevin Birmingham
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    The Forgotten History of the Brutal, Internecine Battles of the American Revolution

    The American Revolution was the country's first civil war, pitting neighbors against one another and dividing families.

    November 12, 2021  By H.W. Brands
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    Locusta of Gaul: Rome's Imperial Poisoner and Possibly the World's First Serial Killer

    Her life began in the countryside. A skill with poisons brought her to the heart of the empire.

    November 2, 2021  By Jennifer Wright
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    On Spiritualism and the Afterlife in Henry James' Turn of the Screw

    "It is the very function of ghosts to undermine confidence—for good or ill—that the dead are truly set apart."

    October 29, 2021  By Susan L. Mizruchi
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    The Forgotten Story of a Polish Spy Whose Los Angeles Trial Was a Cold War Flashpoint

    Marian Zacharski was much admired by American intelligence officers. His trial came at an auspicious moment.

    October 26, 2021  By John Pomfret
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    Tony Hillerman and the Invention of Jim Chee

    Joe Leaphorn, older and sophisticated, needed a new foil—one younger, more interested in tradition, and more inquisitive.

    October 14, 2021  By James McGrath Morris
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    Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology

    "One doesn’t die but becomes an unknown woman, one mutilated sheet of paper at a time."

    October 12, 2021  By Catherine Prendergast
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