The Best True Crime Books of Spring 2019
If you’re a true crime fan, you’re probably always looking for your next favorite true crime podcast, series, or book to read—I’m here to help with that last one. I mean, technically, I could help with all of those, but I’m just here to highlight some true crime books releasing in spring 2019 that you’ll want on your radar.
Nicole Weisensee Egan began reporting on Bill Cosby starting in 2005 when Andrea Constand filed a civil suit against him. Now she has written a book sharing her firsthand account of the thirteen years it took for justice to be served. The book tackles not only Cosby's crimes and predatory behavior, but also the societal issues surrounding and influencing one of the highest-profile cases in the #metoo era.
On Sale April 23rd
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Linda Taylor was a con artist, kidnapper, and possibly a murderer, but was only looked at as a welfare cheat. Levin spent six years researching to get past the racism-created “welfare queen” myth to tell the story of Linda Taylor, what she did, what was done to her, and how her name was used and manipulated by politicians in order to further vilify poor black women. True crime books that don’t ignore society’s problems and biases are always my jam.
On Sale May 21st
If you’re thinking you’ve already read everything on the brutal murders Charles Manson ordered his followers to carry out in 1969, this book may be for you. O’Neill spent twenty years obsessed with finding the holes in the official story, from who Manson’s real Hollywood friends had been, to why police didn’t act sooner, and he has compiled dozens of never-before-seen documents and hundreds of new interviews in this book.
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Jamie Canavés is a Book Riot contributing editor and Tailored Book Recommendations Coordinator who always has a book in one hand. She writes the Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter, never says no to chocolate or ‘80s nostalgia, and spends way too much time asking her goat-dog “What’s in your mouth?!” Tweets: @Oh_Dinky.