Favourite true crime books?

[SinkGirl]

Just finished The Last Stone and I’ll Be Gone In The Dark - I love books about investigations in particular as if I had my time over again I would love to have been a detective!

Any recommendations?

Truman Capote in cold blood is a classic.

@Bubbletrouble43

Truman Capote in cold blood is a classic.

Just came on to post this!

Love anything Capote .....

www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Faction-Really-Kidnapped-JonBenet-ebook/dp/B00D5GVSXY/?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Have-You-Mysterious-Disappearance/dp/1250027144?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I would highly recommend American Kingpin by Nick Bilton.

'The Stranger Beside Me' By Ann Rule. It's about Ted Bundy.

I recently read The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère. I'd picked it up in a charity shop without really paying much attention to it and it was only a few chapters in that I realised it was a true story.

It's not a nice read by any means but, as an insight into the type of person who can steal and lie to their own family and then kill their own children, it's worth a read.

If you want to know about the case without reading the book, here's the Wiki link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Romand

Killers of The Flower Moon by David Grann was an excellent read. Columbine by Dave Cullen was fascinating and thought provoking.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt is fantastic and full of eccentric 'characters' who all add to the plot.

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It's brilliant.

[quote NetballHoop]I recently read The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère. I'd picked it up in a charity shop without really paying much attention to it and it was only a few chapters in that I realised it was a true story.

It's not a nice read by any means but, as an insight into the type of person who can steal and lie to their own family and then kill their own children, it's worth a read.

If you want to know about the case without reading the book, here's the Wiki link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Romand[/quote]
Excellent book and intriguing case.

Thanks so much, will add these to the list! Just finished Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen (the journalist who helped finish I’ll Be Gone In The Dark after McNamara’s death) - if you enjoyed that book, I would definitely recommend it, but I love the idea of crowdsourcing investigations.

Supper with the Crippens by David James Smith

@SinkGirl

If you love the idea of crowdsourcing investigations have a look at the truth and justice podcast.

The recent ones aren't the usual format due to COVID limiting investigation, but they've done excellent work on the Ed Ates case and on the west Memphis 3

Excellent, thank you - will check it out! I’ve only listened to a few podcasts but once my boys start school soon I plan to listen to lots :)

I enjoyed

• Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton
• Undercover: True Story Of Britan's Secret Police by Paul Lewis and Rob Evan's
• As If by Blake Morrison
• Gang War by Peter Walsh, interesting because it looks at how things like poor town planning made drug dealing easier. But maybe if you don't know Manchester it's less interesting.