Absolutely riveting, a book you won’t forget. Kate Summerscale more or less singlehandedly detonated the recent explosion in true crime with her award-laden account of a gruesome child murder in ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

When librarians have book recommendations, we take them seriously. Here are 11 books with Louisiana ties that librarians at ...

Netflix unveiled the "American Murder: Laci Peterson" true-crime docuseries in August, giving new perspective to the case with interviews from Laci's mother, Sharon Rocha, and Peterson's former ...

"Blood and the Badge" by Michael Cannell is the tale of two NYPD officers who were paid to provide information and even kill ...

As recounted in Richard Esposito’s Jimmy Breslin: The Man Who Told The Truth (Crime Ink, 360 pp.), Breslin's head pounded the bar with such force that witnesses differed over whether he went ...