Tag: true crime

3 books with this tag.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann · 2017

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

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson · 2003

Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.

2,020-word summary · 9 min read

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote · 1966

Capote reconstructs the Clutter murders and the killers' flight in the book that invented true crime.

1,965-word summary · 9 min read