2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

True Crime

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story Of A Young Woman Who Vanished From The Streets Of Tokyo--And The Evil That Swallowed Her Up

Richard Lloyd Parry

Tell Me Everything: The Story Of A Private Investigation

Erika Krouse

Squirrel Hill: The Tree Of Life Synagogue Shooting And The Soul Of A Neighborhood

Mark Oppenheimer

Murder Among Friends: How Leopold And Loeb Tried To Commit The Perfect Crime

Candace Fleming

Rogues: True Stories Of Grifters, Killers, Rebels And Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

Killing The Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime In America

Bill O'Reilly

Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind Of The Lindbergh Kidnapping

Robert Zorn

American Demon: Eliot Ness And The Hunt For America's Jack The Ripper

Daniel Stashower

The Falcon Thief: A True Tale Of Adventure, Treachery, And The Hunt For The Perfect Bird

Joshua Hammer

Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens The Unsolved Murder Cases Of The Civil Rights Era

Jerry Mitchell

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, And The Quest To Bring Down The Most Wanted Man On Wall Street

Sheelah Kolhatkar

I'll Be Gone In The Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search For The Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

Bending Toward Justice: The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed The Course Of Civil Rights

Doug Jones

Death In The Air: The True Story Of A Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, And The Strangling Of A City

Kate Winkler Dawson

Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder And Memory In Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, And The Last Trial Of Harper Lee

Casey Cep

Before And After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories Of Orphans Who Survived The Tennessee Children's Home Society

Judy Christie

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery Of Betrayal, Family Secrets, And Stolen Identity

Axton Betz-Hamilton

The Gangs Of New York: An Informal History Of The Underworld

Herbert Asbury

The Prince Of Paradise: The True Story Of A Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, And A Ruthless Murder

John Glatt

Tremors In The Blood: Murder, Obsession And The Birth Of The Lie Detector

Amit Katwala

The Good Mothers: The True Story Of The Women Who Took On The World's Most Powerful Mafia

Alex Perry

Highway Of Tears: A True Story Of Racism, Indifference, And The Pursuit Of Justice For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls

Jessica McDiarmid

Chaos :Charles Manson, The CIA, And The Secret History Of The Sixties

Tom O'neill

Sandworm: A New Era Of Cyberwar And The Hunt For The Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

Andy Greenberg

She Kills Me: The True Stories Of History's Deadliest Women

Jennifer Wright

Blood & Ink: The Scandalous Jazz Age Double Murder That Hooked America On True Crime

Joe Pompeo

Blood Royal :A True Tale Of Crime And Detection In Medieval Paris

Eric Jager

Chase Darkness With Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

Billy Jensen

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself In The Mysterious Disappearance Of Maura Murray

James Renner