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)