“Irresistible.” — People, “Best New Books of the Week”

“This spine-tingling true crime anthology....[looks] beyond killers and victims and at systemic and institutionalized depravity.” — Shelf Awareness, starred review

“Moves the needle closer to a version of the genre where crime is systemic abuse, baked into the work of institutions designed to protect us.” — Jezebel

“Superb . . . one of the best true crime books of the year.” — NPR.org

“An excellent anthology . . . Weinman has done more than create entertainment . . . she challenges the reader to use true crime as a lens to explore the world around us.” — BookPage

“Thoughtful and wide-ranging. . . . The superior quality of these essays begs for future volumes.”  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“With nuance and sensitivity, Weinman curates essays that consider the explosion of interest in true crime, stories from the perspectives of victims, and tales that present new information about notorious killers. . . . This enthralling volume insists that there can and should be humanity within true crime.”   — Library Journal (starred review)

"Essential reading for all true crime fans." — Booklist

Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, where he received the 2014 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. His books have won numerous awards, including the New York Times bestseller Say Nothing, which won the Orwell Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School, he is a nonpracticing lawyer and a fellow at The Century Foundation, a policy think tank in Washington, DC. A former Marshall Scholar, he is also the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Graham Halstead, an Earphones Award and Audie Award-winning narrator, is a professionally trained actor and voice artist. As an actor, he has worked internationally in Edinburgh and London, as well as at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His youthful, easy-flowing voice can be heard on television and radio voicing spots for Airborne and Allegra.

Sarah Weinman is the editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives. She covers book publishing for Publishers Marketplace and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Guardian, and Buzzfeed, among other outlets. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Gabra Zackman is an actress, author, and narrator who has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. She was educated at Northwestern University. A classically trained actress, she has appeared in theaters all over the country as well as on film and television.