14 True Crime Releases Out This Season You Don’t Want to Miss

Fourteen new and upcoming true crime books are being released this season. One explores the history of the mafia as a global business intertwined with the state. Another examines racial hatred and its spread across the country. One book resists the sensationalism of an infamous crime to restore dignity. Another recounts a game of cat-and-mouse involving teenage hackers. One is a compelling read for true crime enthusiasts interested in the cannabis legalization movement. Another is a searing account of a standoff and a definitive intellectual history. One frames its narrative as a whodunit in search of perpetrators.

• Fourteen new and upcoming true crime books from the first months of the year, featuring dogged modern investigations, horrifying real-life mysteries, shocking miscarriages of justice, and sweeping histories of organized crime.
• Gingeras paints a convincing picture of an interconnected, increasingly diversified, and truly global business which is tightly and apparently irrevocably intertwined, in so many different ways, with the apparatus of the state itself.
• Oscillating between alarming and infuriating, American Reich takes readers on a cross-country journey to examine how racial hatred slithered, like tentacles, out of Orange County and into the rest of the country.

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