Mexican mugshots: criminal cult heroes of the 60s
A haul of police photographs found in a flea market reveals dramatic shots of the thieves, bank robbers and nannies-turned-crooks that once made up the country’s lawless subculture
One of Us review – compelling account of Norway’s lone-wolf killer
A study of Anders Breivik’s murderous rampage in 2011 has echoes of American Psycho
Oscar Pistorius trial books review – the case that mesmerised the world
Tim Lewis weighs up the evidence from three accounts of a gripping trial by June Steenkamp, Mandy Weiner and Barry Bateman, and John Carlin
Quiet Dell review – Jayne Anne Phillips’s ‘truth in fiction’
The American novelist's recreation of a real-life murder of a family is her best work yet, writes Kate Kellaway
Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness review – convincing, enlightening
Lisa Appignanesi's study of crimes of passion blends scholarship with a seductive interest in what makes us human, writes Kate Colquhoun
Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness – review
Should erotic obsession be grounds for getting away with murder? Dinah Birch on three notorious cases
Joe McGinniss obituary
Controversial writer and journalist known for Fatal Vision and The Selling of the President
John F Kennedy assassination: 50 years of conspiracy in fiction and film
The assassination of JFK and the conspiracy theories that followed have proved irresistible to writers and artists, from Oliver Stone to Stephen King. By Colin Kidd
What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner – review
On prosmiscuity, porn, monogamy ... this study of female sexuality overturns some tenacious assumptions, writes Emma Brockes
The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales – review
This true story of a gang of celeb-obsessed thieves startles with its sharpness, writes Hadley Freeman
The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales – review
The true story of a teenage gang who burgled the homes of Hollywood stars is a classic of our times, writes Tim Adams
The Inheritor’s Powder by Sandra Hempel – review
Sandra Hempel's account of the 1833 poisoning of George Bodle seems oddly uninvolving, writes Bella Bathurst
Thomas Quick: the Swedish serial killer who never was
In the 1990s, he confessed to more than 30 murders. Then, he changed his name and revealed his confessions were faked. Elizabeth Day met him
Debut author: Peter Moore
Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy on a gripping account of a historical murder that was a Radio 4 Book of the Week
Anyone seen Bobby?
Three brothers got mixed up with the Krays. One went missing. They thought he'd been done in – but 35 years later he turned up on Facebook. By Sabine Durrant