Genius Unbound

Six new books, six very different journeys! From true crime and baseball history to The Monkees, Sherlock Holmes, and literary mysteries, discover what's new on the Genius Bookshelf.

Behind the number 343 are the lives and stories of the FDNY firefighters lost on September 11, 2001. Discover how artist Dawn Howkinson Siebel spent six years creating portraits that honor the individuals behind the sacrifice, and how those portraits became "Better Angels: ...

We remember the number 343. But behind every number was a person, a family, and a life. Discover how artist Dawn Howkinson Siebel honors the firefighters lost on September 11, 2001, through extraordinary portraits and personal stories.

Meet Lee DeVore, the veteran detective whose firsthand experience investigating a brutal 1976 murder and the crimes that followed became the basis for The Parking Lot Rapist.

Behind the doors of Los Angeles’ infamous Cecil Hotel lies a history of unexplained deaths, bizarre tragedies, and notorious serial killers. Bob Cyphers explores its dark past in this excerpt from California: Surf, Sand & Murder....

Discovering aphantasia can explain a lot about how your mind works, but not everything. Author Andrea Thorfinson explores what aphantasia affects, what it may not, and why different doesn’t have to mean incapable.

Will Johns reflects on growing up in the shadow of rock-and-roll history, his complicated musical inheritance, and how the blues became a source of identity, survival, and transformation.

Fourteen-year-old Jimmy Gilmore disappeared from his Baldwin Park home in 1962. More than twenty years later, a renovation revealed the disturbing truth: he had never gone far at all.

Former detective and forensic investigator Steve Rush explains how real-world knowledge, careful research, and the smallest details can make crime fiction feel authentic.

When true crime focuses on the mystery, the victim can disappear behind it. Alexandra Kitty’s work on the murder of Carol Jenkins asks whose stories get remembered—and whose are too easily forgotten.