You know you’ve got a serious criminal on your hands when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the former sidekick of mass murderer Charles Manson and aspiring presidential assassinator, admits to being intimidated by them in their shared federal prison. Yet, that’s exactly the kind of impact Ana Montes made on those around her after her decades-long […]

Interview and Book Club Review by Law&Crime’s Stefanie Doucette Roseanne Montillo is the author of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire’s Wife and the Murder of the Century. Her book chronicles the murder of wealthy banking heir Billy Woodward at the hands of his wife, Ann, in 1955. Before Montillo, the case also fascinated Truman […]

Network Expands Gavel-to-Gavel Trial Coverage to Create True Crime Community with Monthly Book Club Leading live trial and true crime network Law&Crime is excited to announce the launch of its new Book Club, which will feature a monthly book recommendation – or “Spotlight” – carefully selected from a growing pool of new releases in the […]

Written almost a century after the series of murders it investigates took place, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by The New Yorker staff writer David Grann takes on the dual task of archival research and contemporary critique. It attempts to understand the greed and depravity that […]

What happens when a poet attempts to grapple with the unspeakable horrors of their own family tragedy? That’s exactly the literary experiment poet Maggie Nelson embarks upon in The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, which tells the story of her Aunt Jane’s murder in 1969 and the trial to bring her killer to justice […]

As the trial of NXIVM mastermind Keith Raniere proves, the line between self-help and cult-hood can be a tricky one to parse, as well as a scary one to contend with if left unchecked. In her book Don’t Call it a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM, investigative journalist […]

Williams’ Gang is a detailed and vivid chronicle with a profound message that is equally difficult and important to face: America endorsed human bondage at every level of law and government.

Reggie B. Walton, the federal judge who presided over the trial I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is taking President Donald Trump to task for pardoning the former chief of staff of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Sara Paretsky's newest novel Shell Game brings back her legendary private investigator V.I. Warshawski for an adventure entangling Russian mobsters, the vindictive wealthy, ICE agents, and stolen artifacts.

The Godfather and Goodfellas films were adapted from books, but the authors didn't belong to "the Life." That's why Law&Crime Book Club checked out the work of Brooklyn native Frank DiMatteo.