What True Crime should I read? (authorities, serial killers, FBI, syndrome)

[Nbbphh]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Thanks for the other suggestions here, too--the last one sounds familiar--I think there was a similar case in upstate New York some years ago.

Yes, that's the one

[sheena12]

So hat have you decided to read?

[Latina7]

Originally Posted by Hypnosis

Please list good books to read on true crime.

Here is a list of some I can remember: I will list them by name, following the author:

Deadly Innocence--Scott Burnside, Above The Law,-- Briam J. Karim, One Deadly Night, -- John Glatt, A Wife's Revenge, -- Eric Francis, Deadly American Beauty, --John Glatt, Honeymoon With A Killer, -- Don Lasseter, Lethal Embrace, --Robert Mladinich and Michael Benson.

Deadly Masquerade,-- Richard T. Pienciak, Deadly Mistress, --Michael Fleeman, No Good Deed, -- Tom Basinski, The Officer's Wife, --Michael Fleeman, In the Middle Of The Night, -- Brian McDonald.

Love Daddy--Carlton Smith, Double Jeopardy--Bob Hill, Without A Trace--Marion Collins, Blind Passion--John Glatt, Secrets Never Lie--R. Roberts McDonald, Broken Vows--Eric
Francis, Death Sentence--Joe Sharkey.



I hope these can keep you busy for a while. Some of them, may have to be ordered, because after 2 years, they go out of circulation in many stores. Enjoy...............

[abigailprettycat]

Flora Rheta Schreiber wrote "The Shoemaker". I recommend it too.
"The Ice Man" Confessions of a Mafia Killer. Philip Carlo. Really, really scary. Polish hit man for the mob. Didn't get caught for a long time because he wasn't a member of the "family".

['M']

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

Weirdly, I've never read In Cold Blood. I think I will make that my next book to read.

And I agree this is a great idea for a thread!

Yes! Kudos and reps for the member who started this most interesting thread. I hadn't been aware that there was a True Crime section. I did read In Cold Blood and it was very good. This is slightly off topic, but one reason I like the Dexter books is because the author doesn't describe the actual gorey details. Although the TV series does. I don't need gorey Dexter is fiction that is written similarly to true crime. The author writes with a wonderful sense of humor. That alone makes for a good read.

BTW...have always wanted to sit through a sensational trial. That is one of my goals in the not too distant future.

[pigeonhole]

A good true crime book I read was on Ira Einhorn, "the Unicorn". Don't remember the author, though.
Another one (forgot the name of the author too), on Velma Barfield, a black widow in NC who finished on the the electric chair.

[Fontucky]

By Joseph Wambaugh:

Fire Lover
The Onion Field

[hilgi]

Originally Posted by Ketabcha

Joe McGiniss is another true crime author whom I respect. His work is good. I think the best of his is Fatal Vision. It's the story of Jeffrey McDonald, a Green Beret & MD who murdered his wife and 2 little girls while on a military post. It's a very spooky story. I could not put it down. It was made into a TV movie with Gary Cole as McDonald. Very good.

Fatal Vision is a good work of fiction. His premise about McDonald being on drugs was a complete fabrication. Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted of killing his family, has new — Enter Joel McGinniss — Crime Library on truTV.com

[dcashley]

Enron.

[Clark Fork Fantast]

For anyone interested in the police investigation angle rather than the "criminal mind analysis" type of books, Mark Fuhrman's true crime books ought to be high on the list, in particular Murder in Greenwich (about the Moxley/Skakel case). My personal favorite is Murder in Spokane, about the serial killer Robert Yates and the women he murdered--but above all it is an in-depth critique of a near-botched police investigation. In Death and Justice Fuhrman explores the case of a too-zealous D.A. in Oklahoma who introduced flawed evidence in order to obtain guilty verdicts. That's a real eye-opener...And if you're into the entire JFK speculation phenomenon, Fuhrman's A Simple Act of Murder invites you to think twice about what you may have thought was obvious! Great read.