12 Gripping True-Crime Reads

When a mystery writer moves into a new apartment that seems too good to be true, he slowly unravels its grisly history.

Revisiting a decades-old cold case with only one suspect: the priest who heard the deceased’s final confession.

When a widow and three children are found dead after a suspicious fire, an investigation ensues that uncovers one of the victims’ monstrous past.

By the time Rawson was born, her father had already committed seven murders. A conversation with the daughter of the serial killer BTK.

A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds.

Was the rock legend’s fourth wife murdered, and did the man known as “the Killer” do it?

Inside one of America’s most corrupt police squads, facing multiple counts of extortion, racketeering and fraud for their part in a “perfect storm” of officers gone rogue.

When an all-star crew with the perfect plan pulled off the caper of the century, it made them more than a fortune—it made them folk heroes.

Tom Justice was once a cyclist chasing Olympic gold. Then he began using his bike for a much different purpose: robbing banks.

Beginning in 2015, Houston was plagued by a series of brutal armored car robberies that bewildered FBI agents for nearly two years.

Police on Long Island wrote off missing immigrant teens as runaways. One mother knew better and searched MS-13’s killing fields for answers.

Was the death of Richard Lancelyn Green, the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert, an elaborate suicide or a murder?