True Crime Winner: Call Me God

"Around the office I’m known as a true crime fanatic—a dubious distinction, or at least it was. But looking at the best true crime of 2019, would anyone still call it a guilty pleasure?

My Favorite Murder’s Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark dug deep and ripped up the rulebook for their first audiobook, cracking our hearts open in the process. American journalist Patrick Radden Keefe brought an outside perspective to the Troubles, illuminating Northern Ireland’s impenetrable conflict with a thrillingly lucid account. Albert Woodfox grew up poor and turned to robbery, but his wrenching memoir plumbs deeper crimes—corrosive racism, wrongful conviction, and the hell of solitary confinement. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark collaborator Billy Jensen blazed his own trail with an unforgettable memoir-cum-call to arms, paving the way for a new generation of citizen sleuths.

And then there was Call Me God, the first comprehensive account of the hunt for the DC Sniper.
Too rarely are crime stories told from such an immediate perspective—law enforcement, experts, victims’ families, and survivors. Featuring legendary FBI agents Jim and Tim Clemente alongside others central to the case, Call Me God told a chilling story with ingenuity, empathy, and an authenticity that’s impossible not to hear." —Kat, Audible Editor

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