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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.
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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.
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.
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.
Conviction
On the morning her husband leaves her for her best friend, Anna McDonald, a Glasgow mother hiding a past of her own, takes off across Europe with her friend's abandoned husband, a rock star, to solve the shipwreck murders of a true-crime podcast.
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.
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.
Paris Trout
In 1949 in Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout, a white storekeeper and moneylender, shoots a fourteen-year-old Black girl over a debt, and cannot see why the town thinks he has done anything wrong.
Under the Midnight Sun
In 1973 in Osaka a pawnbroker is found murdered in an abandoned building, and the case stays open for twenty years as the lives of the victim's son and the suspect's daughter wind around each other.
The Sculptress
Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas's memoir, written as he was dying in New York, of growing up poor in rural Cuba, his years as a gay writer persecuted by Castro's regime, and his escape.
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.