My Favorite Murder Reading List

Let Me Explain Nothing

Episode 431

Host: Karen

• A Shot in the Moonlight, by Ben Montgomery

Here's Your Reward

Episode 430

Host: Karen

• Symbolism of Richard Dadd, by Peter Ogwen Jones

• The Late Richard Dadd, 1817-1886, by Patricia Allderidge

• Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum, by Mark Stevens

Flip That Board

Episode 428

Host: Georgia

• Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Killer, by Maureen Boyle

Audacity on Tap

Episode 424

Host: Georgia

• The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes, by Michael Newton

I Wish You Hadn't Told Me That

Episode 422

Host: Karen

• Victorian Murders, by Jan Bondeson

Be a Better You

Episode 415

Host: Karen

• A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, by Sonia Purnell

Smooth As A Cucumber

Episode 412

Host: Karen

• Deliberate Cruelty, by Roseanne Montillo

• A Crazy Thing Called Love: The Golden World and Fatal Marriage of Ann and Billy Woodward, by Susan Braudy

The Bossy One

Episode 410

Host: Karen

• Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break, by Kenneth LaMaster

You Were Exactly Right

Episode 409

Host: Georgia

• Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, by Lillian Faderman

Turn It Forward

Episode 408

Host: Karen

• Italian Sketches: The Faces of Modern Italy, by Deirdre Pirro

Skippers' Paradise

Episode 407

Host: Georgia

• The Mother of All Lies: The Casey Anthony Story, by David Kennedy

Thanks, Smart People

Episode 405

Host: Karen

• From a Whisper to A Rallying Cry, by Paula Yoo

How Does Gambling Work?

Episode 404

Host: Georgia

• Sonny Liston: The Champ Nobody Wanted, by A.S. “Doc” Young

• The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights, by Shaun Assael

Host: Karen

• Last Dance, Last Chance, by Ann Rule

Thrive & Survive

Episode 403

Host: Georgia

• The Surgeon of Crowthorne, by Simon Winchester

Staunch Women

Episode 402

Host: Georgia

• The Premonition Poisoner: The True Story of Serial Killer Tillie Klimek, by Charlese Ellis

Keep A Lid on It

Episode 401

Host: Karen

• Ten Days in a Mad-House, by Nellie Bly

• Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist, by Brooke Kroeger

A Jack Ruby Type

Episode 399

Host: Georgia

• Diamond Doris, by Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart

Doers of Knowing

Episode 397

Host: Georgia

• Cult of the Great Eleven, by Samuel Fort

It's Not a Meeting

Episode 393

Host: Georgia

• Sympathy Vote: A Reinvestigation of the Valerie Percy Murder, by Glenn Wall

• Zodiac Maniac: The Secret History of the Zodiac Killer, by Glenn Wall

Adult Hands and Adult Brain

Episode 391

Host: Georgia

• The Silent Twins, by Marjorie Wallace

Cow Women

Episode 390

Host: Karen

• Charity, by Jim Carrier

Host: Georgia

• Frontier Madam: The Life of Dell Burke, Lady of Lusk, by June Read

Cocaine Shark

Episode 387

Host: Karen

• Night of the Grizzlies, by Jack Olsen

FOMO is Ancient

Episode 386

Host: Karen

• San Francisco Homicide Inspector 5-Henry-7: My Inside Story of the Night Stalker, City Hall Murders, Zebra Killings, Chinatown Gang Wars, and a City Under Siege, by Frank Falzon

This One's for Steven

Episode 384

Host: Karen

• The Deadly Soap-Maker of Correggio: The True Story of Leonarda Cianciulli a Superstitious Mother Who Turned Victims Into Soaps and Cakes (True Crime Explicit Vol 6), by Genoveva Ortiz

• Serial Killers, by Joni Johnston

Under Underpants

Episode 382

Host: Karen

• Queen Victoria & the Stalker: The Strange Story of the Boy Jones, by Jan Bondeson

Alcoholic Pickle

Episode 379

Host: Karen

• Dying for Chocolate, by Kerry Segrave

Gloved Hand Gesture

Episode 378

Host: Karen

• In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story, by Mary Woodward

Emotional Money Booth

Episode 374

Host: Karen

• 18 Tiny Deaths, by Bruce Goldfarb

Math With Karen and Georgia

Episode 372

Host: Karen

• An Odd Kind of Fame, by Malcolm MacMillan

Blizzard Hotline

Episode 369

Host: Karen

• Blood of the Prophets, by Will Bagley

• Massacre at Mountain Meadows, by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr, and Glen M. Leonard

High-Fives With Both Hands

Episode 367

Host: Georgia

• 43. Like Magic” from Supernatural: 300 Horror Stories, Mysteries and Urban Legends, by Cael Novak (pages 52-53)

You Don't Ever Know

Episode 365

Host: Karen

• The Great Crimes of San Francisco, by Thomas S. Duke

• American Murder: Criminals, Crimes, and the Media, by Mike Mayo

The B-I

Episode 364

Host: Karen

• Ma Barker: America’s Most Wanted Mother, by Chris Enns and Howard Kanzanjian

• Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919-1940, by William Helmer and Rick Mattix

• Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota, by Deborah Frethem and Cynthia Schreiner Smith

A Generous Number of Apples

Episode 362

Host: Karen

• America's first Olympics: the St. Louis games of 1904, by George Matthews

A Socially Awkward Person's Great Idea

Episode 358

Host: Karen

• If You Tell, by Gregg Olsen

High-Five Halloween

Episode 351

Host: Georgia

• The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century, by William C. Jordan

• The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century, by William Rosen

• From the Brink of the Apocalypse, by John Aberth

Old Biscuit

Episode 348

Host: Karen

• All About History: Book of The Titanic

Fistful of Butter

Episode 346

Host: Karen

• Destroying the World to Save it, by Robert Jay Lifton

• Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, by Haruki Murakami

Congrats to Australia

Episode 345

Host: Karen

• Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, by James W. Loewen

Catfish Your Friends

Episode 340

Host: Karen

• My Sister Milly, by Gemma Dowler

Tenfold More Murder: Part 1 & 2

Episodes 321 & 322

• Death in the Air, by Kate Winkler-Dawson

Full Metal Recovery

Episode 290

Host: Karen

• Crate Escape, by Brian Robson