True Crime Books

True Crime Books

When we talk true crime books, the first few authors that come to mind are John Grisham – but hold on a second, that’s wrong!

True Crime means exactly that – the story is real and based on real people and victims. The real crime writer usually does some intensive research and interviews with witnesses, freed-suspects and occassionally revisit the crime scene to collect facts on the story, adhereing to strict journalistic rules.
There are highly-speculative true crimes books that are released mainly to cash in on a very public crime case.
Most true crime books are real, non-fiction accounts of real crimes. However there are some true-crime fiction books out there that are based loosely on similar cases ( this is where John Grisham comes to mind)

Read our reviews on some crime books we find interesting:

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

World Without End by Ken Follett (we quite like this particular one. And you can get a copy for cheap here)

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Persuader by Jack Reacher