The superior quality of these essays begs for future volumes.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) she challenges the reader to use true crime as a lens to explore the world around us.” - BookPage Weinman has done more than create entertainment. one of the best true crime books of the year.” - NPR.org “Moves the needle closer to a version of the genre where crime is systemic abuse, baked into the work of institutions designed to protect us.” - Jezebel beyond killers and victims and at systemic and institutionalized depravity.” - Shelf Awareness, starred review “This spine-tingling true crime anthology. “Irresistible.” - People, “Best New Books of the Week” There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader. Michelle Dean’s “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick” went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV show The Act and Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” is the gold standard for forensic journalism. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable.Īcclaimed author of The Real Lolita and editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales.

The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita

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