• New Nonfiction

    A Murder in Laredo

    How an investigation into a woman's murder in the Texas borderlands became a search for a serial killer.

    August 6, 2024  By Rick Jervis
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    The Assassinations That Targeted India's Journalists

    In a new book, Rollo Romig discusses the killing of Gauri Lankesh and other reporters in India.

    August 6, 2024  By Kevin Canfield
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    March 31, 1985: The Day That Tore San Diego Apart

    "Two white San Diego Police officers followed a pickup truck with seven young Black men up a long dirt driveway in the Southeast neighborhood of Encanto. Minutes later, something terrible happened."

    July 26, 2024  By Peter Houlahan
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    How American Purity Culture Led To a Shocking Affair—and An Even More Shocking Murder

    When Brian Winchester and Denise Williams wanted out of their marriages, murder seemed a more palatable option than divorce.

    July 23, 2024  By Mikita Brottman
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    How the Underworld Exploited Jewish Women in Turn of the Century New York

    On the East Side, women from the garment industry were targets in an evolving system of crime and exploitation.

    July 16, 2024  By Dan Slater
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    Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Woman Who Organized 19th Century New York's Criminal Underworld

    Margalit Fox's new book puts a spotlight on a forgotten trailblazer of crime.

    July 11, 2024  By Margalit Fox
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    Margalit Fox on the Woman Who Organized Theft in 19th Century New York

    The woman at the center of Fox's new book, Fredericka Mandelbaum, built her own "crooked ladder."

    July 8, 2024  By Kevin Canfield
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    The Black Spectacles: John Dickson Carr's Most Unusual Crime Novel

    Martin Edwards on a curious and striking outlier from the king of locked room mysteries

    July 8, 2024  By Martin Edwards
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    A Window Into the World of Those Who Search for the Missing

    On the quiet heroism of forensic scientists working to identify long-dead remains in former Yugoslavia

    July 2, 2024  By Taina Tervonen
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    The Jewel Thief and the Prince of Wales

    One night in 1924, a charismatic thief took the Crown Prince on an unforgettable tour of Prohibition New York City.

    June 25, 2024  By Dean Jobb
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