As one person commented on Zap Tales' blog, “I honestly don’t know where to begin.” The Fourth Side: A Prison Odyssey zapped me too…and how! When I began reading, I knew I was about to enter a world I knew only from movies and TV...

The Shawcross Letters: My Journey Into The Mind Of Evil by John Paul Fay and Brian Whitney is a disturbing true crime story, told through a series of letters and interviews. Arthur Shawcross is one of the most evil of all killers and his interviewer,...

Two Shades of Vice: Based on the True Story of an Interracial Couple's Life Together in Crime by Dewey Reynolds is a true crime story that explores powerful cultural and political issues in a great historical setting. In a story set against the tumultuous backdrop...

The Complete Jelly Bryce Trilogy by Mike Conti is a compelling compendium of three books about one of the historical personages in US law enforcement, a legendary figure whose life is shrouded in mystery, Delf "Jelly" Bryce. Based on known facts and stories about the...

The Boy Who Loved Girls: The Memoir of a Boy on His Dangerous Journey by Robert McNally is a unique memoir that captures the youth of insurance auditor Robert McNally in colorful prose. He is the guy who escaped being drafted into military service in...

The Murder in a Child's Mind by Rita Marcoli is a true story. Ann Lucas is a teenage girl with mental deficiencies who finds herself in the spotlight over the double murder of Wilma and Fred Burns. This is the story of how justice failed...

The Writer With No Hands by Matthew Alford is a true account of an investigation into the death of Hollywood screenwriter, Gary Devore. Matthew Alford has managed to get hold of a file that had never been seen before, the report on the autopsy for...

Cary Allen Stone’s Through a Mother's Eyes: A True Crime Story is the true story of Julie, a mother who murdered her child. Stone did not write this story to gain sympathy for Julie or for people to hate Julie. Stone wrote this book so...

The Blood on My Hands: An Autobiography by Shannon O'Leary is a powerful, dark memoir. In her memoir, O’Leary tells how she and her family suffered at the hands of an abusive father with a multiple personality disorder. O’Leary actually witnessed her father murder people...

While a lover of history, anthropology, and criminalistics, the story of Michael Collins was one I was only vaguely acquainted with before reading SM Sigerson's The Assassination of Michael Collins. The book's description is what first caught my attention. I greatly enjoyed reading the book....