2025 Edgars round-up: The Bishop and the Butterfly
Susan Howard wraps this year's Best Fact Crime overview with a look at a Tammany Hall story that may have overreached. Subscribe now
Read-Handed: Doggie dupes and dead du Ponts
Plus fake Pitts, phone flim-flams, Dominick Dunne, and Marcia Clark in our latest reading round-up.
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: Hell Put to Shame
Susan Howard’s Edgars coverage continues with Earl Swift’s book on a peonage massacre; read the full review here, or subscribe at the paid level to get all...
Gone Girls and the rule of three(-part streaming doc)s
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Edgar Awards round-up: The Amish Wife
Prolific genre author Gregg Olsen returns to the subject of his FIRST book: the murder of Ida Stutzman. Is it a case worth revisiting? Susan Howard gets into...
March 2025 bonus review: Eaten Alive!
A South Texas Bluebeard meets the Texas Chainsaw Massacre creative team; it may not go exactly the way you think it does. Mars Productions Corp. Subscribe now
Horror story: The Killing Fields of East New York
Stacy Horn's recent book chronicles the corruption that turned a neighborhood into a cautionary, all-too-true tale. Is it worth your time? Read Mark...
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: A Devil Went Down To Georgia
Deb Miller Landau covered Lita McClinton's murder for Atlanta Magazine; 20 years later, she returned to the case. Is the book worth your time? Read the rest...
Happy Face: "Please don't produce me"
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Last Take: "How you get justice from an accident"
The making of Rust turned into a Möbius of trauma for everyone involved, not least Halyna Hutchins. Is a documentary about it worth making – or watching?...
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: The Infernal Machine
Read Susan Howard’s take on a tale of anarchist bombings and the birth of the surveillance state right here… …or up your support of Best Evidence and get...
Read-Handed: Gypsy-Rose, Michael Stewart, and sisters of mercy
Plus a Lawrence Wright longread, the passing of a genre giant, and the perils of branded crimoir. More from SDB’s reading list here, or grab a full sub and...
2025 Edgar Awards round-up: Long Haul
Once again this year, Best Evidence is tackling the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award nominees for Best Fact Crime book. Read Susan Howard’s first...
The Man Nobody Killed: art, community, and the grief left behind
Mark Blankenship’s review of Elon Green’s latest is here — or, to get full reviews straight to your inbox, Subscribe now
Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas is true crime comfort food
I should lead by confessing that prior to watching new Paramount+ true crime series Sin City Gigolo: A Murder in Las Vegas, almost everything I knew about...
February 2025 Bonus Review: The Annals of Manhattan Crime
6 takeaways from a rare '80s magazine issue…including how to read it for free A Pottstown, PA publication contemplates the Crater case. Subscribe now
How true-crimey was Gene Hackman’s c.v.?
The late great Hoosiers star has a long IMDb résumé, including a handful of classics. But is he a GENRE legend? find out with SDB’s Hackman BET-CRP or read...
6 better uses of your time than Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy
Peacock had its reasons for making the hourlong doc; I can't really come up with any for watching it. SDB’s alternative read/watch list is here, or grab a...
You’ve watched Secrets Of The Dead’s Nazi art-thief episode. What’s next?
The PBS show wraps up its look at Hitler's righthand art looter, Bruno Lohse, this week; we've got your further reading covered. SDB’s review and reader here...
Read-Handed: FDR, forensics, and French takes on 50 cases
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