Our Most Anticipated True Crime Books Coming This Year

When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, fanaticism and deceit begins to unravel.

The Icepick Surgeon is a true crime book from New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean. This book, publishing in trade paperback this year, guides readers through two thousand years of history, examining what happens when ambition pushes people to commit crimes and cross ethical boundaries in the name of science. 

Jimmy the King is a story of murder that spans over four decades. After a thirteen year-old boy was brutally murdered in the suburbs of Suffolk County, New York in 1979, a local teenager named Jimmy Burke emerged with a convenient story to tell. For his cooperation, Jimmy was awarded with a job as a police officer and thus began his climb to the top of one of the country’s largest law jurisdictions. Jimmy Burke was a corrupt cop who used gangster tactics to control his jurisdiction. He and his crew essentially ruled the town. But then it all came crashing down in the most unexpected way.

The Missing Cryptoqueen is the incredible inside story of the world’s biggest crypto con. By March 2017 more than $4 billion had been invested in OneCoin in dozens of countries, but the whole thing turned out to be nothing more than a pyramid scheme. And Ruja Ignatova, the brains behind the cryptocurrency, had disappeared. This is the story of one of the biggest scams of the 21st century and the woman who got away with it.

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the Masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.

At 5.02 pm on June 5th, 1986, a call came into the local sheriff's office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State from Stella Nickell. Her husband Bruce was having a seizure. As the officers arrived on the scene, Bruce was already dead.
Forensics identified that Bruce had consumed headache pills laced with cyanide and in an attempt to cover her tracks, Stella saw to it that a stranger would also become her next victim of the cyanide-tainted painkillers.
What would drive a seemingly normal outgoing and popular mum and wife to kill?
As the investigation began to unfold, Stella’s daughter Cynthia notified federal agents of her mother’s crimes. But she didn’t reveal everything…

The true story of an untrue story–how the murder of a DNC political staffer spawned conspiracy theories, fanned the culture wars, and pitted one family against a media empire.

The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters who first uncovered the dimensions of the deluge of pain pills that ravaged the country and the complicity of a near-omnipotent drug cartel.