Unspeakable Acts - True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark , bestsellers like I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours , and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Countr y, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Acclaimed author of The Real Lolita and editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. Michelle Dean's 'Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick' went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV show The Act and Pamela Colloff's 'The Reckoning,' is the gold standard for forensic journalism. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader. >

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Weinman
• Assisted by: Patrick Radden Keefe (Introduction)
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780062839886
• ISBN: 978-0-06-283988-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law; Sociology, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, History of the Americas, The Americas, Sexual abuse and harassment, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Criminal law: procedure and offences, TRUE CRIME: General, LITERATURE: TRUE CRIME, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, TRUE CRIME: Sexual Assault, SOCIOLOGY: CRIMINOLOGY, TRUE CRIME: White Collar Crime, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Criminology, LAW: CRIMINAL LAW, LAW / Criminal Law, Literature / True Crime, Sociology / Criminology