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Capote's reconstruction of the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family by two drifters, braided from police files, interviews, and his own long friendship with the killers on death row.
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The Executioner's Song
The last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore, paroled in Utah in 1976, who killed two men and then demanded to be executed.
News of a Kidnapping
García Márquez's account of the kidnapping of ten Colombian journalists and public figures by Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel in 1990, taken as leverage against extradition to the United States.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A journalist investigates a real-life Savannah murder and discovers a city where eccentrics, drag queens, and voodoo practitioners live alongside old-money aristocrats.
This House of Grief
Garner follows the trials of Robert Farquharson, who drove his car into a dam on Father's Day 2005 and drowned his three sons, and asks whether he meant to.
Hell's Angels
Hunter S. Thompson spends a year riding with the Hell's Angels and finds that the outlaw myth hides a real capacity for violence, in the book that made his name.
Penance
A discredited journalist reconstructs the 2016 murder of a schoolgirl in a failing Yorkshire seaside town by three of her classmates, and the reconstruction is part of what is wrong with the book.
I Have Some Questions for You
A film professor and podcaster returns to the New Hampshire boarding school she attended to teach a short course, and her students' project reopens the 1995 murder of her former roommate.
Into the Wild
In 1992 Chris McCandless, a gifted young college graduate, gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and was found dead months later, and Jon Krakauer reconstructs why.
The Gentleman from Indiana
John Harkless, an Eastern college man who bought the failing newspaper of Plattville, a small town in Indiana, has spent years there alone when a summer begins to change the town around him.
A Crime in the Neighborhood
In the summer of 1972, in a Washington suburb, ten-year-old Marsha's father leaves her mother for her aunt, and a boy is murdered behind the local mall.
The Book of Ruth
Ruth, a plain and overlooked girl in a small Illinois town, grows up under a bitter mother who favours her clever brother, and marries Ruby Dahl, a damaged young man, who comes to live with them.
Ordinary Grace
In the summer of 1961 in a small Minnesota town, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum, son of the Methodist minister, sees death come to town in several forms.