True Crime Reading Gifts

True crime novels.

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

I understand that our cat Magus died. I miss her a lot. But I wish my parents wouldn't tiptoe around it. House of Java.net Cybercafe. You don't have to watch Youtube clips of CSI: Miami to understand that death is a part of life. The thing I don't understand about our cat's death is, who would've killed her and left a mountain of unresolved clues that only a crack forensics team can figure out? Where were you at 8:45 p.m.? The Youtube Generation grows up fast.

OK! I promise that the questions will be easy!

"Since he's been a plagiarist, committed perjury and runs a Ponzi scheme, trust can be an issue."

"True crime meets reality TV"

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

"Number 2. Step forward please."

"I worked hard, I played hard and I embezzled hard."

Crime in bookshop

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

Madoff and devil.

"Now don't do anything flashy with the money, like pay off all your student loans at once."

Book Thief in True Crime Department

'Looks like the victim was trying to tell us something,'

"We've hit the jackpot! It's Ed Sheeran's songwriting formula."

911: Would You Like Us To Commit a Crime?

"I couldn't finish that book either."

"Convicts selling novels from prison? At least that could never happen here, eh Jones?"

"3:14 p.m. Suspect drives to lakeside resort. Rents rowboat under false name. Tosses evidence into... wait, how do I tell anyone?" Topper: Undercover police dog

Diary of a DNA Cop

"It was me who did it!"

'I've written a poem describing my feelings on discovering the body, Inspector...'

"Don't worry, honey. This is just for our murder podcast."

'So far we don't have any suspects.'

"I believe this is a case for Sherlock Holmes..."

'Tonight's special presentation, 'The Myth of the Mafia,' was made possible by a grant from the Gambino family.'

'The close Ops surveillance people have just sent these photo's over and we now strongly suspect that Jimmy the Greek is onto us...'

"Another clear case of COVID19."

Arrest of La Tuta

"The sweet smell of the leaves and the rain make fall such a refreshing time!"

'Gee... Nothing says 'I'm dead' like a severed head.'

"I was able to get you a 2-book deal."