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SteveEisenberg · 12-19-2015, 07:54 PM

Quickly going through the list of books I've read since 2005, I'm finding a bunch that I remember as being excellent. Here are 11 titles I just pulled off.

The first five are closest to what people may think of when they think of a true crime book:

Jeff Guinn, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Jeff Guinn, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson

Michael Capuzzo, The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases

Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

The next two are about the least bad kind of crime -- non-violent:

Betty L. Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

Frank Partnoy, The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals

These last four may not be what you think of as true-crime books but are too good to exclude, besides being highly relevant if you are a serious forensics student:

Philip Houston et. al., Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception

Tom Wells and Richard Leo, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

David Kennedy, Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America

12-19-2015, 07:54 PM	#6
SteveEisenberg Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,435 Karma: 43514536 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: near Philadelphia USA Device: Kindle Kids Edition, Fire HD 10 (11th generation)	Quickly going through the list of books I've read since 2005, I'm finding a bunch that I remember as being excellent. Here are 11 titles I just pulled off. The first five are closest to what people may think of when they think of a true crime book: Jeff Guinn, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde Jeff Guinn, Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson Michael Capuzzo, The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases Deborah Blum The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Bryan Burrough, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence The next two are about the least bad kind of crime -- non-violent: Betty L. Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI Frank Partnoy, The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals These last four may not be what you think of as true-crime books but are too good to exclude, besides being highly relevant if you are a serious forensics student: Philip Houston et. al., Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception Tom Wells and Richard Leo, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City David Kennedy, Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 12-19-2015 at 08:35 PM.