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    Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem: A Town with a Dark History of Brutality and Murder

    Nathaniel Hawthorne's Salem: A Town with a Dark History of Brutality and Murder

    For Hawthorne, whose ancestors led the prosecution of Salem's witches, the community's corrupted soul was ever present.

    By Edward J. Renehan Jr. | December 16, 2021

    Fireworks at Graceland: How Elvis Spent His Last Christmas Before Boot Camp

    Fireworks at Graceland: How Elvis Spent His Last Christmas Before Boot Camp

    It was Christmas Eve and the King had been drafted. He decided to blow some stuff up.

    By Robert K. Elder | December 15, 2021

    The Best True Crime Books of 2021

    The Best True Crime Books of 2021

    Celebrating books from Elon Green, Audrey Clare Farley, Samira Shackle, and more.

    By CrimeReads | December 10, 2021

    To Investigate Serial Killers with the FBI, First She Had to Pass the Test

    To Investigate Serial Killers with the FBI, First She Had to Pass the Test

    She was the woman behind the FBI's groundbreaking Behavioral Science Unit. But she was an expert, not an agent.

    By Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess and Steven Matthew Constantine | December 9, 2021

    True Crime Is Changing <br>(And That's A Good Thing)

    True Crime Is Changing
    (And That's A Good Thing)

    Moral concerns have energized a new generation of writers to critically examine what we get out of true stories of violence.

    By Joseph Knox | December 8, 2021

    The Ponzi of Paris: The Greatest, Wildest Confidence Artist in French History

    The Ponzi of Paris: The Greatest, Wildest Confidence Artist in French History

    Marthe Hanau was a savvy woman at the head of a financial empire. She wasn't going to be taken down without a fight.

    By Dean Jobb | December 3, 2021

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    • Exit Party
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    • End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
    • Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History
    • Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era
    • Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
    • The Rouse

    7 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Winter

    By Lizzy Steiner | December 3, 2021

    How the CIA Took Over a Florida Island

    By Craig Pittman | December 1, 2021

    Faith Jones on Growing Up in a Cult, Leaving the Fold, and Reconnecting with Family

    By Molly Odintz | December 1, 2021

    Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

    Inside the FBI's Unlikely Undercover Operation Infiltrating a Radical Militia in Kansas

    Working with informants was never easy. In rural Kansas, there were special challenges.

    By Dick Lehr | November 30, 2021

    The Spy Who Never Was

    The Spy Who Never Was

    British Cold War-era journalist John Peet defected to East Germany, later claiming to have been a Soviet sleeper agent. But was he?

    By Jordan Todorov | November 24, 2021

    From Superstition to Science

    From Superstition to Science

    The Slow Birth of Modern Criminology and Forensics

    By Adam Selzer | November 23, 2021

    How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

    How Delaware Sold the Greatest, Most Insidious Financial Secrecy Tool the World Has Ever Known

    In the 1980s, Delaware officials went on a barnstorming tour of Asia. They were selling a new kind of secrecy.

    By Casey Michel | November 23, 2021

    The French Murder Case That Shocked a Francophile Family Into Writing A Detective Series

    The French Murder Case That Shocked a Francophile Family Into Writing A Detective Series

    Gerald Jay Goldberg was haunted by a brutal murder of a tourist in the South of France. Decades later, his family finishes his series.

    By Robert Goldberg | November 22, 2021

    The CrimeReads 2021 Gift Guide, Part 2: Coffee Table Edition

    The CrimeReads 2021 Gift Guide, Part 2: Coffee Table Edition

    What do you buy for the crime lover who already has everything...that is, everything murder-related?

    By Molly Odintz | November 19, 2021

    November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

    November's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

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

    By CrimeReads | November 19, 2021

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