Ten Groundbreaking True Crime Books
How long do moments last? For the genre of true crime, this current moment is roughly seven and a half years old, dating back to the immense popularity of the podcast Serial’s first season in the fall of 2014. But crime and murder are a perennial fascination, dating back centuries. Think of the preacher Cotton Mather’s pamphlets in the late 17th century, or Benjamin Franklin’s early yellow journalism. Or, well, the Bible. We love to consume stories about the worst humanity can do and seek to understand how and why it happened.
Murder is, of course, an awful, ugly business, and Americans in particular continue to crane their necks to get a peek at the worst of the wrecks. We want answers, we
