The writing is fantastic and topics are diverse, with in-depth and beautifully written looks at moments and movements. This important selection of news stories stands to be both instructive to students of journalism and a treat for its... Read More

"My Ghost Has a Name" is a true-crime work that digs deeper, exploring the human psyche with appealing, resonant results. Haunted by the tragic and horrific 1999 murder of her one-time school friend, Nell, Rosalyn Rossignol sets out to... Read More

"A Murder in Music City" imparts a great sense of 1960s Nashville as it unfolds an old crime in the present day. Eighteen-year-old college student Paula Herring was shot dead at her mother’s Nashville home in 1964, with her young... Read More

This riveting true-crime exploration highlights the relationship between race and the law in the post-Civil War South. Karen L. Cox’s Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South translates historical facts into an... Read More

This engrossing book tells the story of a family’s reluctant participation in public affairs at a national level. Marilyn June Coffey’s "That Punk Jimmy Hoffa!" is a work of narrative nonfiction about the author’s father’s... Read More

Wine aficionados and teetotalers alike would savor the well-reported true crime tale where FBI stands for Fake Bottle Investigators. Peter Hellman’s "In Vino Duplicitas" is a heady, intoxicating book that shines a light on the esoteric... Read More

"Undeterred" is a vivid and important memoir about real evil hiding in plain sight. A frightening narrative of conspiracy, racism, and hatred in midwestern America, Tracey Brame’s "Undeterred" is a disturbing work of nonfiction drawn... Read More

Violent crimes have wide implications, as this work of true crime shows. Angelo J. Kaltsos’s "Music You Will Never Hear" relates the story of the author’s uncle who, in 1946, shot and killed a Boston police officer and was... Read More