• New Nonfiction

    Chasing the Memory of a Grandfather Who Faked His Own Death

    Boss Brooks was a Depression era villain or a hero, depending on who you asked. The family he left behind still has questions.

    November 25, 2025  By Kathy Bingham Turner and Leon Alligood
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    Eli Frankel: I Was the Last Person to Interview the Black Dahlia Murder Witness.

    What she told me changes everything

    November 11, 2025  By Eli Frankel
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    Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack the Ripper and the Fact and Fiction of Criminal Profiling

    Rachel Corbett on the Efforts to Find One of History’s Most Gruesome Serial Killers

    November 3, 2025  By Rachel Corbett
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    The Texas Murder Mystery That Launched Skip Hollandsworth Into a Life of Crime Writing

    In an excerpt from the new book, 'She Kills,' Skip Hollandsworth remembers the hometown mystery he could never solve.

    October 28, 2025  By Skip Hollandsworth
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    Show, Don't Tell: Donna Leon's Timeless Lessons for Well-Crafted Books

    Leon analyzes Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer novels and finds new lessons for writers in their well-worn pages

    August 28, 2025  By Donna Leon
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    Gregg Olsen On a Haunting Crime and The Snowballing Consequences of Trauma

    Read an excerpt from Olsen's latest work of true crime, "Out of the Woods"

    August 15, 2025  By Gregg Olsen
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    The Secret Committee That Persecuted Black and Gay People In the Name of Fighting Communism

    On Florida's hidden Cold War on Black and queer lives

    July 3, 2025  By Robert B. Fieseler
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    Caitlin Rother on Letting Surprises Happen

    In writing nonfiction, the research always takes you in a new direction.

    June 24, 2025  By Caitlin Rother
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    Searching for Hazel Drew, Whose Legend Inspired 'Twin Peaks'

    A 1908 murder in Upstate New York went unsolved for a century. The victim's ghost appeared to one author in a dream.

    June 18, 2025  By Jerry C. Drake
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    Elmore Leonard: Birth of the Cool

    In an excerpt from the new biography, Cooler than Cool, Leonard discovers his crime fiction voice after reading George V. Higgins, while balancing a burgeoning career in screenwriting.

    June 10, 2025  By C.M. Kushins
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