True Crime Top 5

True Crime Top 5

True Crime stories are filled with violence, deception, murder, and mystery, perfect for a summer read.
The Top 5 True Crime stories in the last year based on library circulation are:

#5 In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family in 1959.

#4. Master Thieves

by Stephen A. Kurkjian

A definitive account of the Boston criminal underworld’s role in the infamous $500 million Gardner Museum art theft.

#3. A Murder in Wellesley

by Tom Farmer

A tale of a psychopath, of deceptions and double lives, and of families torn apart by an unthinkable crime.

#2. Black Mass

by Dick Lehr & Gerard O’Neill

The true story of violence, double-cross, and brutal murders involving Irish mobsters and corrupt FBI agents in South Boston.

#1. Devil in the White City

by Erik Larson

Murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America.