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True crime is one of the most popular television genres, and there are plenty of amazing books that desperately need to be adapted for the smaller screen.Films are already a significant medium for ...

The same could be said for books that chronicle these events. In 1966, Truman Capote published In Cold These days it seems everyone is watching true crime documentaries on Netflix or tuning into ...

And it is that final arena, TV, in which I found myself embedded when I co-created The Sticky (along with Brian Donovan). Inspired by the true crime dubbed, “The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist ...

The crime journalist Jack Olsen once said of Capote’s book that it “made true crime an interesting, successful, commercial genre, but it also began the process of tearing it down.” ...

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But what makes a good true crime read? Traci Thomas, creator of “The Stacks” podcasts, said she doesn’t tend to go for books about isolated incidents, like a crime of passion between two people.