Sarah Weinman is the author of The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece and the editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession.
Her new book is Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free.
At Publishers Weekly Weinman tagged ten true crime "books [that] helped me make sense of the world's darkest corners," including:
True Crime edited by Harold Schechter (2008)Read about the other entries on the list.
When a genre finally makes it into the hallowed halls of the Library of America, that is a sign of its growing respectability.(Psychological suspense did with my own two-volume set, Women Crime Writers, in 2015.) As a writer, Schechter has done more work and research on historical serial murderers than anyone else (and become, alas, ripe for pilfering by true crime podcasters.) Editing this volume demonstrates the breadth of his knowledge and his astute choices of other nonfiction crime writers and their pet cases. Someday, I hope, there will be a follow-up anthology.
--Marshal Zeringue
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