#true crime

The 5 biggest movies on Netflix right now as The Crash is watched 39,300,000 times in 2 weeks

Carmen Lineberger renamed the sealed Jack Smith report “Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf” and emailed it to herself, and now she’s facing 25 years in prison

London Falling

...I have no fear, 'cause London is drownin' and I, I live by the river... You can't write a book called London Falling and convince me it's wholly unrelated to London Calling . Perhaps it is, perhaps…

Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘London Falling’ Tries To Separate Fact From Fiction

Killer Clown

I have an on and off again relationship with true crime. I found I'll Be Gone in the Dark to be both riveting and terrifying. Adnan's Story was another gripping read. [Killer Clown](Killer Clown) isn'…

Underworld

Underworld is more of the same from Jared Savage, but not in the bad way that that phrase typically connotes. It's a necessary conclusion to a trilogy of books that remain novel for their locale and i…

The Fort Bragg Cartel

It’s not at all surprising that starting forever wars, giving elite forces license to do whatever they want while enabling and covering for their worst behavior would produce all sorts of negative out…

Code Name: Pale Horse

A reasonably engaging piece of copaganda . The groups the author helped impede, bring down and infiltrate are all, with little argument, terrible and his actions — as described — were well intentioned…

The House of My Mother

A compelling, empathetic and flawed read. It certainly draws you in, but much of the detail of the author’s experience(s) with her mother is surface level. You know there’s more there, you can feel it…

Black Tunnel White Magic

I often look to the true crime genre for engaging narratives, detailed retellings of stories I'm perhaps only vaguely aware of and a simple interest in the genre. I wasn't aware if this case and I'm s…

Rogues

Patrick Radden Keefe has a knack — hell, actually, let's call it a gift — a gift for crafting truly compelling retellings and detailed nonfiction narratives. He did it in Say Nothing , Empire of Pain …

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

This was a fascinating read that did a lot to punch holes in the default narrative of the Manson murders that Bugliosi established in Helter Skelter . What it doesn't do is draw any definitive conclus…

The Sing Sing Files

It goes without saying that the US’ carceral system isn’t just deeply flawed, it’s entirely broken. From private prisons looking to fill beds and doing nothing to reduce recidivism, to law enforcement…