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A journalist investigates a real-life Savannah murder and discovers a city where eccentrics, drag queens, and voodoo practitioners live alongside old-money aristocrats.
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The Ponder Heart
Edna Earle Ponder, who runs the hotel in Clay, Mississippi, talks a stranger's ear off about her generous, childlike Uncle Daniel, his marriages and the trial that has the whole town watching.
In Cold Blood
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.
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.
Listen for the Lie
Five years after she was found wandering covered in her best friend's blood with no memory of the night, Lucy Chase goes home to her small Texas town, where a true-crime podcaster has come to reopen the case.
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.
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.
A Curtain of Green
Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
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.
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.
Where the Crawdads Sing
A young woman raised in the North Carolina marshes by herself is suspected of murder, and the trial reveals a life shaped by abandonment and the wild.
The Grass Harp
An orphaned boy, his gentle elderly cousin Dolly and her friend Catherine move into a treehouse to escape Dolly's domineering sister, and the town turns out to bring them down.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.