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

In "The Thefts of the Mona Lisa", Noah Charney reveals fascinating details about the beguiling masterpiece’s artistic and social history, including its infamous 1911 theft and two years’ absence from the Louvre. The book includes... Read More

Kathy Kleiner Rubin’s earnest memoir "A Light in the Dark" spans three brushes with death. As a child, Rubin had lupus and was isolated until high school—the first death sentence she avoided. In college, she and her roommate survived... Read More

A cold case breaks open thanks to a novelist’s determination in the unique true crime book "True Crime Redux". Lawyer and true crime writer Stephanie Kane’s often gripping book "True Crime Redux" recounts the brutal murder that... Read More

Revisiting a case that generated media frenzy, "Witness to a Prosecution" seeks to restore a maligned man’s reputation. Richard V. Sandler’s "Witness to a Prosecution" is a personalized chronicle of the 1980s and 1990s legal case... Read More

"When the Smoke Cleared" is a thorough true crime book that examines a gripping murder case. Retired Massachusetts detective Bill Powers’s procedural true crime book "When the Smoke Cleared" tracks the details of a murder investigation... Read More

Ana Maria Spagna’s fascinating true crime book "Pushed" investigates the possible mass murder of a group of Chinese immigrants by a mob of Indigenous people. While a mob may have pushed the immigrants to their deaths, the book explores... Read More

Human Rights Watch lawyer Reed Brody’s "To Catch a Dictator" is about bringing an elusive criminal to trial for his war crimes. Hissène Habré’s eight-year despotic reign of Chad was marked by political massacres, torture, and rape.... Read More