If true crime is your favorite genre, consider some of these titles recently added to our collection. Casey Cep’s Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee is the story of how the author of To Kill a Mockingbird obsessively followed the case of an Alabama murderer in the hopes of writing her own true-crime classic. In The Last Stone, Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down, Huê 1968) recalls the tragic murder of a pair of young sisters – a story he covered as a reporter in the 1970s – and shows how this cold case was finally solved. Jeffrey Paul Melnick’s Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America’s Most Infamous Family revisits the history of the notorious criminal mastermind and his followers.
Check the following list for these and other great true-crime reads!