So if you're looking to explore the depths of human depravity—or witness the efforts good people take to bring such criminals to justice—read on for 25 of the best true crime books ever published.

Crime books have been turned into some of the ... The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was voted the best crime novel ever by the ...

What follows is not a condemnation of the genre—Malcolm herself has written several true crime books, among them the excellent Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial—but instead ...

Featuring Nordic noir, dark comedy, secret-infested thrillers, literary detective novels and cosy crime, this little bunch of books have all ... t be the first ever screen version of James ...

Capote spent about six years working on this book, which became one of the best ... crime books by Rule are "Green River, Running Red," "The Want-Ad Killer," "The I-5 Killer" and "Everything She E ...

Our columnist picks the year’s best ... (Gillian Flynn Books, 310 pp., $27.95), and Glory Broussard, who takes her first bow in Danielle Arceneaux’s GLORY BE (Pegasus Crime, 257 pp., ...

This year’s best crime fiction runs a global gamut in settings ... What do they have in common? All are written by great storytellers. John Banville’s “The Drowned,” a broody mystery ...

the genre was being snapped up by publishers across the board with women leading the reading pack (70% of Amazon true crime reviews are written by women). Inspired by some of the incredible books ...