considered a masterpiece and one of the best true crime books of all time. The story reads like a novel even though it's a journalistic account. Capote relays the events of a horrific murder that ...

This glut makes it hard to identify the best true crime, which harnesses the instinct for titillation in the service of empathy, justice, and maybe even systemic change. These eight books are some ...

That’s begun to change in recent years, and PW spoke with three authors whose forthcoming books continue to shift the narrative. Podcaster and true crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson recounts ...

It ran as a serial story in The New Yorker weekly magazine before being published as a book in 1966. The best-selling true crime book of all time is “Helter Skelter” by Vincent Bugliosi.