Caught Up In Crime: A Reader's Guide to Crime Fiction and Nonfiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781591584285)

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 categories--"professional 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.

Author: Gary Warren Niebuhr
ISBN-10: 1591584280
ISBN-13: 9781591584285
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2009
Pages: 324
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.85lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.20w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/2009 pg. 57
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 303