Books like Incident at Howard Beach by Charles J. Hynes

When Chicago detective Billy Harney wakes up with amnesia after a shoot‑out, he must unravel a conspiracy that led him to a high‑profile brothel and its elusive black book—each page could free him or trap him forever.

Reinvestigation of Dr. Sam Sheppard’s 1954 murder of his wife, with new evidence pointing to an unknown killer and prompting a renewed county investigation.

A Philadelphia schoolteacher and her two children were brutally murdered, allegedly as part of an insurance fraud plot.

In 1921, John S. Williams’s Georgia plantation, still run by enslaved labor, becomes the site of a chilling federal investigation after the governor orders the destruction of evidence. The case, involving the murder of slaves and a trial that captured national attention, marks a turning point in the treatment of black Americans.

A true‑crime account of a teenage girl who, driven by adolescent turmoil and abuse, plots to murder her mother with the aid of an obsessed boyfriend.

When a father asks the Boston Herald for help finding his missing daughter, a commercial artist, a photo release sparks a murder investigation that dives into Boston’s red‑light district and a prestigious university lab.

Final Analysis traces the brutal murder trial of Susan Polk, a Northern California housewife arrested for killing her husband Felix, unpacking their decades‑long, abusive relationship and the meticulous police investigation that led to her conviction.

The Wrong Man traces the 1954 murder of Marilyn Sheppard, uncovering how Dr. Sam Sheppard was wrongfully charged and revealing new evidence that identifies the true killer.

A true‑crime investigation into the 1928 disappearance of Grace Budd in New York, detailing the relentless search, national press coverage, and the shocking crimes of Albert Fish.

A gripping legal thriller about a prosecutor's quest for justice after a brutal murder in Washington, D.C.

A true‑crime account of the shocking 1990 murder of Gregg Smart and the subsequent trial that rattled the United States, revealing a twisted motive involving a teenage accomplice.

In 1982, a sensational murder trial in Phoenix, Arizona, reverberated throughout the legal community. Restaurateur Steven Steinberg, who killed his wife by stabbing her 26 times, was acquitted; his legal defense portrayed the victim as an overpowering Jewish American Princess whose excesses may have provoked her violent end. Examining the structure of the defense's case, Frondorf, an attorney who was previously a psychiatric social worker, follows the theme that made Elana Steinberg the villain, instead of the victim, of the piece. The defense's forensic presentation, bolstered by testimony from psychiatrists, maintained that Steinberg committed the crime while sleepwalking, an abnormality allegedly brought on by the intemperate spending of his wife. Frondorf recreates the trial whose outcome scarred the tightly knit Jewish community of Phoenix.