Read an exclusive excerpt about the early life of one of Charles Manson's female followers from The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder, by Nikki Meredith.

In an excerpt from Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction by Erika Janik, see how one early policewoman helped solve a sensational murder and the vital role the first policewomen played in busting prostitution rings, finding missing people and more.

Read an excerpt of the true-crime book "The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery" of the murder of the unorthodox Schultz family of Houston Heights, Texas.

Read an excerpt from Michael Arntfield's true-crime book 'Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders America Forgot,' about the 1968 campus murder of University of Wisconsin-Madison student Christine Rothschild and her best friend's fight to find the killer.

Linda Fairstein talks to us about her most memorable unsolved case, what concerns her about how sexual assaults are handled on college campuses and how she is often inspired by real-life events in her books.

Q&A with Nick Bilton on his book, "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road," about Ross Ulbricht's extremely successful (and totally illegal) website.

A weekly look at the best new crime, suspense, and detective writing. This week's book, "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI," by David Grann.

A weekly look at the best new crime, suspense, and detective writing. This week's book, "The Thirst," by Jo Nesbo.

Q&A with Plum Sykes, author of the suspense novel Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery, on how mystery novels don't always have to be super dark, what it's like to work at Vogue, and the allure of floppy-haired British boys.

Q&A with Kevin Flynn on editing the new crime compilation, The New York Times Book of Crime: More Than 166 Years of Covering the Beat.