Murder by the Book

2006 • Court TV Vault
4.5
15 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (10)

1 James Ellroy
11/13/06
Season-only
In 1958 Jean Ellroy, a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was strangled and her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy LA suburb. Her killer was never found and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.
2 Faye Kellerman
12/4/06
Season-only
Faye Kellerman presents a one hour special on a classic sociopath: Tonica Jenkins from East Cleveland. In 1997, Tonica, a 22 year old 'evil-genius' scams her way into an exclusive Yale University neurobiology degree course using forged documentation.
3 Lisa Gardner
11/19/07
Season-only
25-year-old Portland, ME resident Amy St. Laurent disappears.What follows is a vast, multi-jurisdictional effort, with unprecedented collaboration between law enforcement agencies.
4 David Baldacci
11/12/07
Season-only
On the morning of July 7, 1997, the day-shift manager of a Georgetown Starbucks Coffee Shop arrives and finds the bodies of employees Emory Evans, Aaron Goodrich and Caity Mahoney who had worked the night before.
5 Joseph Wambaugh
11/12/07
Season-only
A gunman in a black mask ambushes 70-year-old William Overson and shoots him to death in his vehicle outside of a golf course in San Diego on April 12, 2004.
6 Lisa Scottoline 2
12/3/07
Season-only
When Karyn Hearn Slover's car is found abandoned near her Decatur, Illinois workplace, nobody expects the tragedy that is to follow.
7 Sandra Brown
11/5/07
Season-only
Housewife and church-member Betty Gore is found murdered in her own home. She has been axed to death 41 times. Wylie Police Department's investigation tracks down Betty's friend Candace Montgomery.
8 Harlan Coben
12/17/07
Season-only
Mark Winger, a husband and father, catches a man in the act of bludgeoning his wife to death.
9 Kathy Reichs
1/14/08
Season-only
Even before her mysterious disappearance, Madalyn Murray O'Hair is destined to be infamous. Once pegged "The Most Hated Woman in America," it is Madalyn who effectively gets prayer removed from schools in 1964.
10 Lee Child
1/28/08
Season-only
When 44-year-old husband and father Jeff Zack is gunned down at a gas station by a mysterious masked man on a motorcycle, police are initially baffled.

About this show

truTV has invited America's top mystery fiction
writers to recount their memories, speculations, and personal
connections to true-life mysteries and headline-making crimes.
Using documentary footage, first-person accounts, and the
author's own insights, each one-hour episode sheds new light on
a particularly intriguing crime.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
15 reviews
Christi Nash
September 17, 2014
This show is great entertainment for people who love murder mysteries and true crime. I watched James Ellroy because of L.A. Confidential and Black Dahlia, and I have mixed feelings about him droning on about his sexual attraction to his mother, seems histrionic, like even as an old man he wants you to be shocked or disgusted.
Lisa Foster
February 7, 2014
THIS SHOW IS GREAT BECAUSE I READ SOME OF THE AUTHORS FROM THE SHOW.
Cynthia Davis
October 31, 2015
I plan to continue watching it.
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