A courageous story of surviving government corruption, The Parrot’s Perch is an often harrowing memoir. Karen Keilt’s brave memoir The Parrot’s Perch, told partially through a 2013 interview with the Brazilian National Truth... Read More

"A Massacre in Mexico" is a harrowing inquisition into the fate of forty-three missing Mexican students and the governmental cover-up. Author Anabel Hernandez, who fled from Mexico to the United States to escape deadly retribution for... Read More

A decade after Latisha King’s murder, Gayle Salamon reassesses what we know about King and her legacy. "The Life and Death of Latisha King" is no ordinary true-crime narrative, but a hard-hitting philosophical investigation into gender... Read More

Jane Goodall’s research center on the shores of a Tanzanian lake pulsates with the passions, perils, and promises of the 1960s in Dale Peterson’s "The Ghosts of Gombe". The book seeks to solve the mysterious disappearance of a... Read More

Richard Bruns’s "I, a Squealer" promises an insider’s account of the “Pied Piper of Tucson” murders. As intriguing as this narrative is, the more compelling story lurks within the relationship between the “squealer” and the... Read More

Melanie S. Morrison’s gripping, revealing, and tragic "Murder on Shades Mountain" returns to 1931 and the Jim Crow South to cover the trial of Willie Peterson, blamed for the murders of Augusta Williams and her friend, Jennie Wood.... Read More

The writing is fantastic and topics are diverse, with in-depth and beautifully written looks at moments and movements. This important selection of news stories stands to be both instructive to students of journalism and a treat for its... Read More

"My Ghost Has a Name" is a true-crime work that digs deeper, exploring the human psyche with appealing, resonant results. Haunted by the tragic and horrific 1999 murder of her one-time school friend, Nell, Rosalyn Rossignol sets out to... Read More