Nine of the best unconventional true crime books

Laura Tillman is an award-winning writer and freelance journalist. Her first book is The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City. One of the author's nine great unconventional true crime books, as shared at Publishers Weekly:The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

This chronicle of obsession began with a New Yorker piece about orchid-poacher John Laroche. The book that