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crime comics and crime fiction

Laverne Mann Lanora MelilloC.L. Quillen

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The Edgar Awards for True Crime given since 1948

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364 with a bullet- true crime,

crime comics and crime fiction

Laverne Mann Lanora Melillo

True Crime categories--

Mafia, GangsAnn Rule

Family + SeductionPolice + Profilers

Cold CasesHistorical Crime

Classics

New Jersey (To have and to kill, seven Jersey murders)

Mafia, Gangs

Al CaponeJohn GottiLa Cosa

NostraCasino-

Nicholas Pileggi

Tokyo ViceThis is for the Mara SalvatruchaAngels of Death: Inside the biker gang’s

global crime empire – J SherHell’s Angel – R BergerPaddy Whacked: The untold story of the

Irish American GangsterHavana Nocturne – TJ EnglishGomorrah (Naples) – R. SavianoThe Good Rat- Jimmy BreslinUnderboss – P Maas

Ann Rule

Family, SeductionShattered: a mother’s love, a husband’s betrayal, and

a cold blooded Texas murder

Angel Face: The true story of student killer Amanda Knox

A date with death: The secret life of the ‘craigslist’ killer

Cold as ice: a true story of murder, disappearance, and the multiple lives of Drew Peterson

LJ bestsellers True Crime 2010

• Cruel DoubtJoe

McGuiness

Police, Profilers

• FBI profilers• John Douglas• John Walsh• Dr. Bill Bass (Body Farm)• The Killer of Little Shepards• Three weeks inside the mind

of BTK

• Prison, punishment 365

Cold Cases

Zodiac KillerJon Benet RamseyNatalee HollowayBob CraneThe Murder Room

Historical Crime

• Jack the Ripper• Lindbergh Baby

The Case that never dies

• Conspiracy theories!

• The Killer of Little Shepards• Manhunt: The twelve day chase

for Lincoln’s killer• Devil in the White City• Black Dahlia

2011 Edgar AwardsBest Fact Crime

Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity

by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry

The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South by Alex Heard

Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his Assassin

by Hampton Sides

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr

Underrated…

Strange piece of paradiseTerri Jentz

A rip in heaven Jeanine CumminsLucky

Alice Sebold

NoveList

• Crimelibrary.com• www.mafianj.com• www.americanmafia.com• Mysterywriters.org• Truecrimereport.com• Truecrimebookreviews.com

Crime Manga

Lanora Mellilo, Secaucus Public Library

Crime FictionC.L. Quillen,

Old Bridge Public Library

Crime Comics

Genre: American comic books Originally popular in 1940s, 1950sMoralistic tone and graphic depictions of violence, criminal activity

CRIME COMICS

Detective ComicsBatmanBatwoman

Ed Brubaker: SleeperCriminalGotham CentralIncognito

Brian Azzarello:100 Bullets

Brian Michael Bendis:Powers

Frank Miller:Sin City

A treasury of Victorian murder Rick Geary

Graphic Nonfiction:

Jack the Ripper Lindbergh ChildBorden TragedyThe Beast of Chicago

For more information about graphic novel collection developmentin libraries, please visit theNJ State Library GN wiki at:

Comicsnj.pbworks.com

Workshop Presenter MaterialsCore Collection Lists

comics & graphic novel news sourcesPictures of graphic novels in libraries

Questions?Comments?

Thans!

• Laverne Mann lmann@piscatawaylibrary.org• Lanora Melillo• C.L. Quillen