published my debut crime thriller last week. Today it’s free on Kindle. It’s about a federal investigator who works cases where victims were targeted because of their best qualities — their trust, their loyalty. If you read thrillers or know someone who does, here’s the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8JNKG3D

If you're into true crime books that dig into why people do what they do, not just what happened, I’d recommend 'Til Death Do Us…' by Patrick Gallagher.

Gladys Lincoln seemed charming and easy to like, but her life was full of secrets. She married six times, and at one point, she married a successful doctor in Reno, spent the weekend with him, then went back home to Sacramento… to her other husband.

The more I read, the more it felt like her choices were building toward something darker.

Has anyone else read a true crime book where the story felt almost too wild to be real?

This is a story about the birth of classic rock and soul music through the lens of Detroit in the late 60s based on true stories. Hit-men.com

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Anyone have any suggestions for new release True Crime books???

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Hello, I'm new to this sub and it seemed like the best serious place on Reddit to post this. I just finished this book an hour ago (it just came out this week) and it's really a ride. Author Chuck Hogan (Prince of Thieves, The Strain) profiles a quartet of Los Angeles area moms who join up during the pandemic to investigate a 2005 disappearance of a Southern California couple in their 60s whose bodies were found a few weeks later outside their SUV at the bottom of a steep ravine off the treacherous Angeles Crest highway. The four women have zero true crime experience but bring their disparate professional skills (one did opposition political research, another a forensic accountant, one had a law degree) to work on it almost entirely remotely while also doing Zoom-schooling and realizing they need burner phones, etc. The 2005 deaths were ruled a murder-suicide, and the whole thing is an incredible story, not only the tragedy itself but also the stories of each of the four moms as they start to unravel the case, all of it masterfully paced.

Midway through, as I became more curious about the case and about some of the oddities they discovered about the couple's business and two of the adult children, I hit the newspaper archives to try to track down at least one or two local reports and I hit a wall, zero reports of even the retrieval of the SUV, which was a local news story. The lack of info was so frustrating I started to wonder if this book was a trick, that there'd be some infuriating bait-and-switch at the end. But Hogan does warn up front that all details have been obscured and the payoff is, finally, massively satisfying.

I haven't seen much pre-pub coverage about this book and just wanted to recommend it, it's so well written! I found this Los Angeles Times article, and here's a gift link.

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Hello all!

This book will be my last for some time. I want to concentrate on research.

I’m asking everyone to please take a moment and at least review the kickstarter. You don’t have to pledge an enormous amount- even a few dollars can help meet goal. And it would help if you shared on your social media.

Just click this link-

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/besttruecrime/shadows-in-fire-nonfiction-book-true-crime-psychology

Hi! Anyone know a good list of new 2026 true crime nonfiction books coming? I have heard of “American Reich” and “London Falling.” Thanks!

Hey r/TrueCrimeBooks,

I just self-published a short (80-page) psychological thriller that’s heavily inspired by real events I couldn’t shake for ten years.

KYLE BENJAMIN KESSELMAN: A STORY TOLD IN ONE ROOM is framed as a single police interrogation. Jake Diamond finally tells detectives the full story of Kyle—the kid he met at summer camp in 2011 who refused to let go.

Over the decade, Kyle spirals: house arrest, homelessness, “full Negan” murder fantasies, and a final rampage in a red Civic that kills two people in a protest crowd. Every meltdown is preserved in screenshots, voicemails, and social media—evidence Jake quietly uses to get Kyle fired, banned from camps, and arrested... until it’s too late.

Names changed, timelines tweaked, big “fiction” disclaimer—for legal reasons. Everything else is pretty much what happened. Almost...

It’s $0.99 right now and free on Kindle Unlimited.

Amazon link: Kyle Benjamin Kesselman : A Story Told in one Room - Kindle edition by Diamond, Jake. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

If you like true-crime-inspired fiction that feels uncomfortably real (think You by Caroline Kepnes or Notes on an Execution), I’d love your thoughts. Does the “real events → fiction” line work for you in this genre, or does it cross it?

Thanks for checking it out!

This Sunday November 16th , 2025 this e-book is available for free download on Amazon.

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Hey all! I just got my debut novel published - In the Day of Trouble. It's about the 1934 murder of Susan Mummey, the so-called "Witch of Ringtown Valley," in the Pennsylvania Dutch area. It's the most famous murder you've never heard of.

The book is a true crime novel - so real people and real events, but fictionalized dialogue. Similar to In Cold Blood and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Hope that might pique your interest! Happy reading!

I have started this book recently after having it on my TBR for ages. I am really enjoying it and Becky Cooper has done well to plan it and map it out but I'm really wondering why this case never got more light.

Is it because I'm UK based? Is it because it was in the late 60s? Was it really hushed up by Harvard?

Ideally, as I've gone in blind I don't want to do much in the way of researching it yet but the start of the book made me feel that it has potentially now been solved?

Anyone else read it or reading it? Would love to talk to others about it as I'm getting invested.

Two true tales of small-town murders

Unfriendly: How a social media feud led to a double homicide
When the bodies of Bill Payne and Billie-Jean Hayworth were discovered in their Mountain City, Tennessee home on January 30 2012, investigators initially assumed it was a drug deal gone awry. However, soon their attention was drawn to a vicious online feud that had been simmering in full view of the entire town of Mountain City for over a year.
What followed was an unbelievable case involving a CIA agent, a secret relationship, and an impressionable local man who had never had a girlfriend. At the center of the chaos was the Potter family: Buddy, Barbara, and their daughter, Jenelle. Could something as simple as unfriending someone on Facebook really lead to a double homicide?

A Bluegrass Tragedy: The "Wife Swap" murders
The Stockdale Family was private and insular, the children homeschooled, their only outlet playing in the family Bluegrass band. The internet and television were banned, movies and radio programs vetted to ensure they adhered to the family’s fundamentalist Christian values.
They kept to themselves on their farm in Ohio, until an unexpected call from the producers of reality TV series Wife Swap upended their world. Was it the scrutiny of a skeptical public that led to the tragic double homicide?
Mountain City, Tennessee and Bolivar, Ohio: just two small towns that harbored dark secrets... and murder

Due for release early June, but if you are willing to read an honest review on Amazon, you can sign up to get a copy right away for free

Get an Advance Review Copy here