• The Best True Crime Books - The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  • The Best True Crime Books - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
  • The Best True Crime Books - The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • The Best True Crime Books - All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
  • The Best True Crime Books - The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman

The Best True Crime Books, recommended by David Grann

True crime books can be all too easily chalked up as a genre of grisly murders and cheap, voyeuristic thrills—but to do so would be to overlook compelling evidence to the contrary. David Grann, whose true crime book revisits long-forgotten, or concealed, crimes in the Osage community of Oklahoma, raises the bar with examples of true crime books rich in historical discovery, literary merit and the kind of political inquiry these murky times are calling for.