12. 364 with a bullet-
true crime,
crime comics and
crime fiction
Laverne Mann
Lanora Melillo
13. True Crime categories--
Mafia, Gangs
Ann Rule
Family + Seduction
Police + Profilers
Cold Cases
Historical Crime
Classics
New Jersey
(To have and to kill, seven Jersey murders)
14. Mafia, Gangs
Al Capone Tokyo Vice
John Gotti This is for the Mara Salvatrucha
Angels of Death: Inside the biker gang’s
La Cosa global crime empire – J Sher
Nostra
Hell’s Angel – R Berger
Casino- Paddy Whacked: The untold story of the
Nicholas Irish American Gangster
Pileggi Havana Nocturne – TJ English
Gomorrah (Naples) – R. Saviano
The Good Rat- Jimmy Breslin
Underboss – P Maas
16. Family, Seduction
Shattered: a mother’s love, a husband’s betrayal, and • Cruel Doubt
a cold blooded Texas murder
Joe
Angel Face: The true story of student killer Amanda McGuiness
Knox
A date with death: The secret life of the ‘craigslist’
killer
Cold as ice: a true story of murder, disappearance,
and the multiple lives of Drew Peterson
LJ bestsellers True Crime 2010
17. Police, Profilers
• FBI profilers • Prison, punishment 365
• John Douglas
• John Walsh
• Dr. Bill Bass (Body Farm)
• The Killer of Little Shepards
• Three weeks inside the mind
of BTK
19. Historical Crime
• Jack the Ripper
• Lindbergh Baby
The Case that never dies
• Conspiracy theories!
• The Killer of Little Shepards
• Manhunt: The twelve day chase
for Lincoln’s killer
• Devil in the White City
• Black Dahlia
20. 2011 Edgar Awards
Best Fact Crime
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and
Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets
in Jim Crow South by Alex Heard
Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz
Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr
and the International Hunt for his Assassin
by Hampton Sides
The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth
of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr
28. A treasury of Victorian murder
Rick Geary
Graphic Nonfiction:
Jack the Ripper
Lindbergh Child
Borden Tragedy
The Beast of Chicago
29. For more information about graphic
novel collection development
in libraries, please visit the
NJ State Library GN wiki at:
Comicsnj.pbworks.com
Workshop Presenter Materials
Core Collection Lists
comics & graphic novel news sources
Pictures of graphic novels in libraries
Crime fiction spends a great deal of time sorting through the chaos to find some order, a sense of resolution for the often inexplicable madness of murder.Real crimes don’t work that way.Evidence is misfiled, suspects evade arrest on technicalities, investigations stretch out for years before an end in sight- if at all.True crime is a messier affair, but in the hands of good writers, the true spector of violence and mayhem, science and psychology, is elevated to literary art.
Crime= all crime is not just murderPaddy Whacked= best true crime titleDrug dealers, gangs, mafia
Queen of True Crime–Subject: murderers- United StatesSubject: criminals- United States
Subject: Murder InvestigationSubject: women serial murderersSubject: serial murderers
Subject: criminal profilersSubject: police chiefs
Fact Crime not True Crime
Westergard 364 True Crime section
Late 1980s comic writers – interesting work, noir themes, storytelling– realistic crime dramas and even superhero stories