Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.(entertaining true crime story)
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. (the first, some say the best, in this category)
Cornwell, Patricia. Portrait of a Killer. (the Jack the Ripper crimes are solved?)
Metress, Christopher. The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative. (murder in the south)
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. Tale of early 20th Century Chicago World‘s Fair.
David Grann. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. In 1920s Oklahoma, many members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation were dying untimely and suspicious deaths. The widespread crimes against the Osage and the inability to identify those responsible led to the establishment of what is now known as the FBI.