True Crime

Britain has always had a strange, uncomfortable relationship with its darkest histories. We build museums for our wars, erect plaques for our poets — and then, quietly, compulsively, we read true crime books about our most notorious killers. The genre isn’t morbid voyeurism, though critics like to say so. At its best, reading uk serial … Read more

There’s something peculiarly British about our relationship with crime. We invented the detective novel, gave the world Scotland Yard, and produced some of history’s most baffling, unsettling, and genuinely haunting criminal cases. It’s no surprise, then, that british true crime books are among the most devoured reading material in the country right now — outselling … Read more