Mr. McGinnis is best known as a writer of true-crime books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circus Returns to Palin's Hometown] Reference

And she asked him to tell her about his first true-crime book.    From Wordnik.com.  [7th Heaven]

This story has all the makings of a good if offbeat true-crime saga.    From Wordnik.com.  [As The Pages Turn] Reference

Critics often fault true-crime books for being lurid or sensationalized.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 February 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

What are the crucial elements that make for a compelling true-crime book?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ill-Fated Marriage Ends] Reference

Like any good true-crime story, the mystery of the Shroud starts with a body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faith, Proof and Relics] Reference

MICHELE McPHEE is a best-selling true-crime author and host of a talk-radio show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

She was a true-crime buff and often had better instincts than any of the detectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Victim]

For a moment Kate felt as if she™d been dropped into the middle of a true-crime TV drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Pursuit]

KATHRYN CASEY is a true-crime author whose first novel on a Texas Ranger debuts this summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference

Serial killers seem to like reading about their peers, in news reports and true-crime books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets Of Apt. 213] Reference

Near the copy machine someone had amassed an impressive collection of pulp true-crime paperbacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [4.8.2009 « Photo-a-Day] Reference

The resemblances between the true-crime story on the video and the Menendez slayings were uncanny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menendez Murder Trial] Reference

He also collects pulp art, the original paintings used for 1930s-era pulp and true-crime magazines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meat Loaf, Sports Collector] Reference

He said that he wanted to publish crime fiction and true-crime books as soon as he got out of school.    From Wordnik.com.  [7th Heaven]

It was the first of its kind, a non-fiction novel, which began the hugely successful true-crime genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Levien has always had an interest in true-crime, following accounts of abductions for almost two decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Levien biography] Reference

A short digression: When will the term "co-ed," which is only used in true-crime contexts, finally go away?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood War: Who Wins Today's Grabby Tabloid Battle For Your Eyeballs?] Reference

Hailed by the critics as a true-crime masterpiece, Fatal Vision rocketed to the top of the best-seller list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil and Jeffrey MacDonald] Reference

Critics have disagreed on whether Stuart is biography, memoir, or something else, such as a true-crime story.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 March 22 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

I am so pleased that people recognize him for his early, even initial, contribution to the true-crime genre!!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clews List of 10 Best True Crime Books of All Time] Reference

I tell you this not as a cry for help but to explain my allegiance to the true-crime and mystery-thriller genres.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life as a Killer] Reference

Geary always demonstrates a sly sense of humor in his true-crime comics, but he applies it with a freer hand here.    From Wordnik.com.  [20 « May « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon] Reference

Nancy often had time on her hands, and she put it to use reading police procedural thrillers and true-crime tabloids.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter]

Humor can be risky in true-crime books, because it can make it appear that the author is making light of law-breaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 February 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

Your readers might like a new true-crime book "Trail of Feathers" by Robert Rivard, editor of the San Antonio Express-News.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Writing Crime Headlines] Reference

I don't necessarily have favorite true-crime authors, but I definitely have a list of true-crime books that I really enjoy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CLEWS Interviews True Crime Author Simon Read] Reference

Were you concerned that you'd already written several highly respected true-crime books and that the ground was too familiar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ill-Fated Marriage Ends] Reference

I am suprised that no one has mentioned Joseph Wambaugh yet, who is for me the most consistently excellent true-crime writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clews List of 10 Best True Crime Books of All Time] Reference

The television news programs once again feature sensational true-crime tales and lighthearted filler about animals and weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Face Of America] Reference

I wonder if some people don't get true-crime books mixed up with those of fiction where the spark for the story was a real incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curious Incidents] Reference

… In the hands of a less perceptive writer, the book would be just another lurid true-crime tale with superficial religious overtones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Under the Banner of Heaven: Summary and book reviews of Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer.] Reference

The book is billed as a true-crime story, but what drives the narrative is the events -- mundane and otherwise -- of Walworth family life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of 'The Fall of the House of Walworth,' by Geoffrey O'Brien] Reference

In addition to James Ellroy's classic 1987 "The Black Dahlia," the case has spawned several true-crime accounts with maybe-true solutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Case, New Twist] Reference