Once Upon a Crime: True Crime Book Club – Selections Archive

A Killing in Amish Country : sex, betrayal, and a cold-blooded murder by Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris
Among the Bros: a fraternity crime story by Max Marshall
What the Dead Know: learning about life as a New York City death investigator by Barbara Butcher
A Gentleman and a Thief: the daring jewel heists of a Jazz Age rogue by Dean Jobb
A Hunger to Kill: a serial killer, a determined detective, and the quest for a confession that changed a small town forever by Kim Mager
Victim F: from crime victims to suspects to survivors by Denise Huskins
There is No Ethan: how three women caught America’s biggest catfish by Anna Akbari
A Murder in Hollywood: the untold story of Tinseltown’s most shocking crime by Casey Sherman
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach
Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story by John Berendt
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale
The Wild & Wonderful Whites of West Virginia documentary film
Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery that inspired Twin Peaks by David Bushman
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Mills
We Carry the Bones: the Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin H. Kimmerle
Ghosts of Eden Park: the Bootleg King, the Woman Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman
Documentary Viewing – The Central Park Five

Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Slonim Woods 9 by Daniel Barban Levin
The Perfect Nanny by Leïla Slimani
Last Call: a True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
Hell’s Half-acre: the Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas
All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas by Camilla Bruce
A Woman Like Her: the Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star by Sanam Maher
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: a Shocking Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale