Caught Up In Crime

More than 600 crime titles are described and organized according to popular reading interests.Welcome to the dark side of the crime genre where creeps and psychopaths dominate and the good guys don''t always win. Award winning librarian Gary Warren Niebuhr organizes and describes more than 600 crime titles according to popular reading tastes. He adopts the premise that as in mystery character is the defining appeal characteristic of these books but the characters are of a different sort. Books are arranged in three broad categoriesprofessional criminals caught up in crime and criminal detectives. Within these chapters titles are organized in sections on the mob serial killers white-collar crime criminals on the run victims cops-gone-bad rogues and more. True Crime is separated from fictional works. Annotations give brief plot summaries noting the special appeal of the characters involved to help anyone find the perfect book.