True Crime writers explore the mysteries and horrors that fiction can only imagine
. Here are some of the finest examples your library has to offer: In Cold Blood ...
True Crime True Crime writers explore the mysteries and horrors that fiction can only imagine. Here are some of the finest examples your library has to offer: In Cold Blood ,
by Truman Capote. 1965
A detailed account of the crime that shocked the innocent town of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote relies heavily on his close contact with the murderers and his phenomenal ability to remember conversations verbatim. The stark contrasts between the victim's quiet family life and the criminal's ruthlessness made this work one of the first great true crime novels and set the standard for years to come. The Stranger Beside Me,
by Ann Rule. 2000
One of the most infamous murderers in recent memory, Ted Bundy was also known to many around him as a nice, quiet young man - even to the crime writer and former policewoman, Ann Rule. The quiet family life and the insane killer appear in the same man, and Rule probes deep into this terrifying mind to find out why. Serpentine,
by Tom Thompson. 1979
W hile many true crime novels detail crimes that happen in small towns or suburbs, Tom Thompson had to travel through Asia, Europe and America to track a snaking trail of crime and a slippery criminal who rivals the diabolical villains of James Bond and Sherlock Holmes novels. Thompson is renowned for his mastery of the true crime novel.
Helter Skelter: the true story of the M anson murders, by Ben McIntyre. 1994 Bugliosi is probably in the best position to tell this true crime, as he was able to successfully prosecute these sensational crimes of Charles Manson and his followers. The book is thorough and detailed, and impossible to put down. It is the crimes and the criminal capacity of the man behind them that mark this book. The Hoax,
by Clifford Irving. 2006
Clifford Irving was a successful novel writer, a man who honed his craft of persuasion and fiction so well, that he was able to convince publishers, editors, journalists and readers that he had done the impossible. Now, after he hid and ran, was tried, convicted and served time in prison, he offers his version of how it all happened. The Onion Field, 1973
by Joseph Wambaugh.
W ambaugh, a writer with police credentials, documents a horrible crime that left its only survivor, a California police officer, reeling from the violence and paralyzed by his inability to stop it. W ambaugh follows the story from the crime through the legal process.. nh/kg/07/08
