**True crime - reading suggestions**

**Historical True Crime (crimes committed before 1900)**
  * Erik Larson – Devil in the White City (2003)
  * Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008)

**Modern True Crime (crimes committed after 1900)**
  * Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry – Helter Skelter (1974)
  * Truman Capote – In Cold Blood (1966)
  * Dave Cullen – Columbine (2009)
  * Jon Krakauer – Under the Banner of Heaven (2003)
  * Michelle McNamara – I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (2018)
  * Norman Mailer – The Executioner’s Song (1979) 
  * Ann Rule – The Stranger Beside Me (1980)
  * David Simon – Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991)

**Contemporary True Crime (crimes committed after 2000)**
  * Charles Graeber – The Good Nurse (2013)
  * Richard Lloyd Parry – The People Who Eat Darkness (2010)