If You Tell
Three sisters survive fear in a Raymond farmhouse and help police face long hidden murders.
3,166-word summary · 14 min read
nonfiction + true crime
5 books tagged both “nonfiction” and “true crime”.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt spends five years in Savannah and gets drawn into the Jim Williams murder trials, among eccentrics and root doctors.
3,123-word summary · 14 min read
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy behind the Reign of…
2,403-word summary · 11 min read
In Cold Blood
Capote reconstructs the Clutter murders and the killers' flight in the book that invented true crime.
1,965-word summary · 9 min read
The Devil in the White City
Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.
2,020-word summary · 9 min read