Five best: literary tales of real-life crimes

Ron Hansen is the author, most recently, of the true-crime novel A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion.For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of literary tales of real-life crimes.One book on the list:Blondeby Joyce Carol Oates (2000)I have read several biographies of Marilyn Monroe but found none that can match Joyce Carol Oates's "Blonde"—a striking and tragic portrait of a lost,