From bookshelf classics to new breakout tales of greed, murder, sex and whodunnits, meet true crime’s greatest books. So it’s only natural that the book genre that inspired it is also having a ...

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 ...

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...