What’s the deal with True Crime? That’s the question we recently asked ourselves over on Book Riot’s mystery and thriller podcast, Read or Dead. My cohost, Katie McLain Horner, and I took an episode to read some recent(ish) titles about true crime and how the genre is evolving. For far too long, true crime has thrived on our obsession with these violent acts. We can’t look away, mesmerized by someone else’s worst day of their lives.
But in the last decade, more and more voices are speaking out against our culture’s voyeuristic treatment of violence towards women and girls. They ask big questions like, what are the ethics behind consuming this content? Who is allowed to tell the story of these crimes? And whose stories AREN’T being told?
The books below answer these questions and more.
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