A ‘Real-Life Clarice Starling’ and the Murder Case That Haunts Her

In “A Hunger to Kill,” the former homicide detective Kim Mager recalls a career-defining investigation.

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A Fresh Look at a Sensational 1843 Murder Case and Its Fallout

In “The Witch of New York,” Alex Hortis revisits a Staten Island case that helped usher in a lurid new era of journalism.

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When a Teen Was Shot Dead, the Tragedy for This Author Was Personal

As a scholar, Laurence Ralph specialized in youth violence. Then a relative was killed. “Sito” tells the story.

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Two Memoirs of Survival and Its Long Shadow

“Dear Sister” and “My Side of the River” tell vastly different stories about ordinary people looking back on extraordinary circumstances.

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Read All About It! The Long and Bloody History of True Crime Lit.

The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.

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His Mother Spoke Truth to Power, Until She Was Killed for It

Daphne Caruana Galizia devoted her life to exposing Malta’s pervasive corruption, writes her son, the journalist Paul Caruana Galizia, in “A Death in Malta.”

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A Country Where ‘Some People Need Killing’ Was State Policy

The new book by the Philippine journalist Patricia Evangelista recounts her investigation into the campaign of extrajudicial murders under former President Rodrigo Duterte.

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A Sister’s Murder and the Language of Violence

In “Liliana’s Invincible Summer,” Cristina Rivera Garza interrogates her sister’s death to reshape the conversation about femicide.

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The Best True Crime of 2022

From the Jazz Age to the Jim Crow South to late-1960s Southern California, from serial robberies to kidnappings to double homicides: narratives all the more chilling because they happened.

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The Cultural Dread of the Bad Mother

The narrator of Katixa Agirre’s “Mothers Don’t” obsesses over a distant acquaintance who murdered her two infant children.

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When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village

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The True-Life Inspiration for Dostoyevsky’s Famous Murderer

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Mysterious Disappearances, Jewel Heists and Creepy Babysitters

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True Crime Gets Its Close-Up

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The Deaths of Teenage Cousins in a Village in India Have Global Ramifications

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A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore

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Who Is to Blame?

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In ‘Memorial Drive’ a Poet Evokes Her Childhood and Confronts Her Mother’s Murder

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New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Betsey Johnson to Pot in San Francisco

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