• True Crime

    Five True Crime Books You Should Read This Month

    A look at the month's best new nonfiction crime.

    June 24, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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    For Lack of an Ending: How the 1970 Death of a Young Iowa Woman Became a Generations-Spanning Search for Truth

    Katherine Dykstra first learned about the death of 18-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling from her mother-in-law. The case file would come to consume her, but why?

    June 23, 2021  By Katherine Dykstra
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    How the Banning of Joyce's Ulysses Led to "The Grandest Obscenity Case in the History of Law and Literature"

    Morris Ernst knew he could win the case to "liberate" Joyce's famously banned novel. So he found a publisher, took a cut of the royalties, and had a copy sent by boat to America.

    June 22, 2021  By Samantha Barbas
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    The Mississippi Farmer Who Helped Take Down the Jones County Klan

    Tom Landrum was strongly opposed to joining the KKK—that is, until an FBI agent asked him to infiltrate the organization.

    June 22, 2021  By Curtis Wilkie
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    A Murder in Tiger Bay: How Nadifa Mohamed's New Novel Revives a Decades-Old Tragedy

    In 1952, Mahmood Mattan was executed by the British government for a crime he didn't commit. Decades later, a new novel reimagines his world in the working-class docklands of Cardiff.

    June 21, 2021  By Paul French
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    Inside New Jersey's Notorious Prison for Women, Life Carries on for Krystal Riordan

    "It’s a rule-bound world, a world where dance competitions and making birthday chili and rice for your girlfriend co-exist with fight blood on the floor."

    June 18, 2021  By Stephanie Dickinson
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    Asian-American Spies Played Critical Roles in World War Two—They Were Also Under Constant Suspicion

    A new study of three men and a tangled web of subversion, sabotage, and challenged loyalty.

    June 16, 2021  By Brian Masaru Hayashi
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    “They Wanted Something for Nothing”: The Many Cons of the Yellow Kid

    He was America's "greatest con man," self-proclaimed and widely celebrated. But what was the real story of Joseph Weil?

    June 15, 2021  By Dean Jobb
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    A Brief History of the Rise—and Evolution—of True Crime Books

    Who writes true crime? It was once the domain of lawyers, reporters, and cops. But not anymore.

    June 14, 2021  By Keith Roysdon
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    The Most Daring POW Escape in History Began with the Construction of a Ouija Board

    In Margalit Fox's new book, she tells the story of Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, who used spiritualism to cast a spell over their captors.

    June 4, 2021  By Margalit Fox
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