Any Other True Crime Addicts?

inkkognito · Feb 18, 2008

I must confess, I am a total true crime addict. Ann Rule is my favorite, but I read just about every true crime paperback as it comes out.

triceretops · Feb 18, 2008

Ann Rule is totally cool and I've read a number of her books. But...Joseph Wambaugh has blown me away, having just recently read The Onion Field. I wish he would stick to true crime, but he's branched off into crime fiction. He does have a great, witty style.

Tri

kellytijer · Feb 18, 2008

Ann Rule is my favorite true crime novelist as well! Wish I could write it, because I love it....

inkkognito · Feb 19, 2008

I love Wambaugh too! And John Grisham recently wrote a true crime book, although I don't know if he has any others in the works. It would be nice if he did because I really liked his style.

As much as I enjoy reading this genre, I would never have the patience to do the research required to write it. When I read Ann Rule, it amazes me to realize how deeply she must have delved to paint such incisive portraits of the people involved, not to mention slogging through the trials and transcripts.

IceCreamEmpress · Feb 19, 2008

I'm not an addict at all! I can stop whenever I want. Really I can.

Thirding or fourthing the Ann Rule love. Love her. And I, too, loved John Grisham's An Innocent Man--I enjoyed it more than most of his books, truth to tell.

Some other good true-crime books I've read recently: Seduced by Madness by Carol Pogash; Redbone: Murder, Malice, and Money in Atlanta by Ron Stodghill; and House of Secrets by Lowell Cauffiel.

I think my all-time favorite true-crime books are The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson; In Cold Blood by Truman Capote; and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.

underthecity · Feb 21, 2008

I'm not a true crime addict, but I did read Deviant by Harold Schecter. It was an excellent book about serial killer Ed Gein (which inspired Psycho and Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

allen

Any Other True Crime Addicts?

inkkognito

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triceretops

kellytijer

What the hell is going on?!

inkkognito

Onlyifyouwanttowillyoufin daway-Enya

IceCreamEmpress

Hapless Virago

underthecity

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