Monday, January 6, 2025

The best nonfiction crime books of 2024

One title from the CrimeReads editors' list of the best nonfiction books of 2024:
Abbott Kahler, Eden Undone

In Abbott Kahler’s stranger-than-fiction account of murder in a utopian community, two couples and one throuple flee Nazi Germany to live an idealized existence in the Galapagos Islands. Honestly, the subtitle of the book says it better than I ever could: there is sex! There is murder! And there is utopianism, although it fails to translate into an actual utopia. But the best laid plans, when followed rigidly and put in place by bizarre actors, can’t possibly turn out well.
Read about the other titles on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue