Set against cultural and generational tensions in the American South, historian Timothy Silver’s gritty true crime book "Death in Briar Bottom" covers a 1972 incident involving free-living hippies, conservative law enforcement... Read More

Flush with primary sources and seeking to hold rapists accountable in the wake of its subject’s death, "Hometown Betrayal" is a passionate true crime story about justice denied. Through family testimonies and meticulous research,... Read More

Tim Z. Hernandez’s "They Call You Back" expands upon his prior documentary novel All They Will Call You, about the deaths of twenty-eight Mexican nationals in a California plane crash. In January of 1948, a plane carrying Mexican... Read More

Acclaimed scholar Roberta Mazza’s thorough true crime investigation "Stolen Fragments" brings the underground papyrus manuscript trade to the fore of an oft-overlooked antiquities market. In 2012, Mazza launched an investigation into... Read More

Evan Rail follows the trail of a clever and creative fraudster in "The Absinthe Forger", an engrossing true crime story. The word “absinthe” alone is enough to conjure images of tortured artists, fin de siècle decadence, and... Read More

"Girl, Uncoded" is a woman’s powerful memoir about navigating a relationship with a dangerous man. With names changed to protect its subjects, Brandi Dredge’s memoir "Girl, Uncoded" is about her struggle to extricate herself from a... Read More

A riveting true crime story from history, Alex Hortis’s "The Witch of New York" chronicles the misogynist frenzy surrounding a notorious murder trial. On Christmas in 1843, a gruesome discovery horrified the close-knit community of... Read More

Gregg Olsen combines the action and mystery of a thriller with an added layer of memoir in his coverage of the murder of Ida, an Amish woman. On July 12, 1977, a mother in Ohio, Ida Stutzman, perished in a barn fire. Olsen first... Read More