Category: true crime
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Top 5: Favorite Nonfiction Reads of 2026 (so far)
At the beginning of the year, I promised myself I would get back into reading nonfiction regularly… I did well at the beginning of the year, but as I’ve been prioritizing my physical TBR, my digital library has been neglected. (Anyone else prefer listening to nonfiction on audiobook?) Even though I haven’t read much, I…
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Book Review: Murderland by Caroline Fraser
I’ve seen this book pop up for a while now and was casually interested. I picked it up when it was chosen as a book club read. While it was kind of what I thought it was about, it also wasn’t what I expected…
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Book Review: Kingdom of Devils by Katherine Grandjean
When I think of true crime, my mind immediately goes to the 20th century. I have read about and delved into a few cases from before the 1900s, but not often. When this book showed up in my inbox and I saw that it discusses America’s ‘first’ serial killers around the time of the American…
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Book Review: Manson Exposed by Ivor Davis
This is the second book about Charles Manson that I’ve read and it was perhaps more horrifying the second time around. The first one I read (Chaos by Tom O’Niell) had more emphasis on the 1960s and the government as a whole, while this one focused more on Manson, his followers, and his victims…
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Book Review: Felony Review by Randy E. Barnett
I’m fascinated by true crime and I’ve read a wide range of topics and cases, but it’s not often that I’ve been able to experience it from a legal point of view (outside of famous trials). I was excited to receive the opportunity to read Randy E. Barnett’s memoir…
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Book Review: Finding Judge Crater by Stephen J. Riegel
I somehow had never heard of Judge Crater until recently, at least not consciously. After watching the History’s Greatest Mysteries episode on his disappearance, I immediately started looking up books. Surprisingly, I didn’t find many (at least on Audible)…
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Book Review: Alcatraz: The Last Escape by Ken Widner and Mike Lynch
For years, I’ve been fascinated by both Alcatraz as an institution as well as the famous escape. Although this book focuses far more on the escape, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of history about the jail and some of the better-known inmates included as well…
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Book Review: The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan
I think just about everyone who has read The Diary of a Young Girl has asked themselves, “Who betrayed Anne Frank?” There have been several investigations into the case over time, but the reality is that during World War II, the people hiding in the Secret Annex were only eight of thousands betrayed similarly…
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Book Review: Dr. Feelgood by Richard A. Lertzman & William J. Birnes
Earlier this year, I read Blitzed by Norman Ohler. My interest in that book led me to find this book, which follows a similar figure in the United States who injected well-known celebrities and public figures with an addictive amphetamine cocktail…
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Book Review: The House of My Mother by Shari Franke
I hadn’t heard of the Franke family until the news of Ruby Franke’s arrest went viral. The more that came out about her children’s situation, the more heartbroken I felt. While the idea of family vlogging never quite sat right with me personally (hence why I was out of the loop), I didn’t have a…