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 ...

With more biopics, documentaries and podcasts coming out than ever before ... here are the seven best true crime books written by women. In a market that’s incredibly saturated by male writers ...

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 ...

Speaking of books whose film ... You simply can’t discuss true crime without mentioning Truman Capote. Widely regarded as one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, In Cold Blood tells ...

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 publisher of Jo Nesbo’s “The Redbreast” reports that it was voted “Best Norwegian Crime Novel Ever Written” by members of Norwegian book clubs. I am not qualified to comment on that ...

standalone books that push the form — debuts crackling with authenticity, lives we don’t normally read about and boundaries being broken in exhilarating ways. When they are written by women ...

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 ...