{"id":32309,"count":18,"description":"True crime books have enjoyed a resurgence since the podcast <em>Serial\u00a0<\/em>and Netflix series\u00a0<em>Making a Murderer<\/em> woke a new generation to the thrill of real-life investigations. For the new fan, there is a rich vein of excellent narrative nonfiction ready to tap into, not least Truman Capote's classic, genre-defining <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/cold-blood-by-truman-capote\/\"><em>In Cold Blood<\/em><\/a> (1966), and Norman Mailer's <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/the-executioners-song\/\">The Executioner's Song<\/a> <\/em>(1979).\r\n\r\nThe resurgence of enthusiasm for true crime has also seen a wave of brilliant new writing in recent years. <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/david-grann\/\"><em>The<\/em> <em>New Yorker's<\/em> David Grann<\/a>, himself the author of the bestselling, award-winning <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/killers-flower-moon-oil-money-murder-birth-fbi\/\">Killers of the Flower Moon<\/a>, <\/em>highlighted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/true-crime-david-grann\/\">interview <\/a>some of his favourite true crime books, as did lawyer Cara Robertson, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/the-trial-of-lizzie-borden\/buy\"><em>The Trial of Lizzie Borden<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/literary-nonfiction\/true-crime\/serial-killers\/\">Serial killers<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/best-books-art-crime-noah-charney\/\">Art crime<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/cyber-security-josephine-wolff\/\">Cybercrime<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/nonfiction-books\/true-crime\/","name":"True Crime","slug":"true-crime","taxonomy":"category","parent":45785,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/32309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/45785"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=32309"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=32309"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=32309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}