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True Crime

Last Updated: November 25, 2025

Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy

A gripping contemporary true crime narrative about Nathan Carman, who was found floating on a raft in the North Atlantic and was later accused of murdering his mother to gain access to his family’s fortune of more than $40 million

The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling

A taut, riveting work of true crime that tells the strange story of criminal profiling from Victorian times to our own.

The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

In late October 1780, a slave ship set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa’s Windward and Gold Coasts, where it would take on its human cargo. The Zorg (a Dutch word meaning “care”) was one of thousands of such ships, but the harrowing events that ensued on its doomed journey were unique.

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

Reexamines the infamous Crippen Murder through the perspectives of three women: Dr. Crippen’s first wife Charlotte, his mistress Ethel, and Belle Elmore, whose death propelled the case, offering a fresh, multifaceted view of their lives and roles in a crime that captivated Edwardian society.

The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us

The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed.