Coming Soon
“The True Crime Revolution: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love True Crime” is currently under review at Bloomsbury Press. In this book I’ll describe the enormous changes in the genre since 2008, survey the current true crime landscape, and explain the enormous popularity of true crime at the current moment. “The True Crime Revolution” will answer the two questions everybody asks about this genre: “why is true crime so popular right now?” and “why do women love true crime?”
Publications
The Rise of True Crime
"The Rise of True Crime: 20th Century Murder and American Popular Culture" was published in 2008 by Praeger/Greenwood (now Bloomsbury). It was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Book of 2008.
Scholarly Publications
“Aftermath: The True Crime Memoir Comes of Age,” Crime, Deviance, and Popular Culture, eds. Dimitris Akrivos and Antoniou Alexandros, (Palgrave, 2019). Solicited contribution.
“Making Murderers: The Evolution of True Crime,” A History of American Crime Fiction, edited by Christopher Raczkowski, (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Solicited contribution.
“Documenting Murder Before In Cold Blood: The 1950s Origins of True-Crime,” Violence in American Popular Culture, edited by David Schmid (Praeger/Greenwood, 2015). Solicited contribution.
