Each week's story is based on a true-crime book; authors appear to authenticate the stories with commentaries or brief excerpts from their works.

A true-crime book about the work of a serial killer may hold the key to a series of murderous attacks on a teenage girl's family.

And she asked him to tell her about his first true-crime book.

He said that he wanted to publish crime fiction and true-crime books as soon as he got out of school.

And there was a bit about the case in a true-crime book I found.

Since then, she has published three additional true-crime books.

As far as I can remember, I was fascinated with true-crime books.

Let it be said that the best true-crime books exert an undeniable appeal.

As well as writing crime fiction, he penned several best-selling true-crime books over ten years.

Her mother's deterioration had been rapid once they'd come to Vermont-she'd even stopped reading her beloved true-crime books.