Nov 4, 2026 · 3 min listen · Last updated November 4, 2026
From storyflo. This is your daily audio brief. Here are today's top 5 true crime stories. Let's get into it. First, from CrimeReads (Literary Hub). The Best True Crime of the Month: November 2026. 6 new works of true crime history and reportage out this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors.
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The Best True Crime of the Month: November 2026
6 new works of true crime history and reportage out this month, as selected by the CrimeReads editors. Edward Chisholm, Murder in Paris ’68: A True Story of Death and Glamour “Murder in Paris ’68 reads like an icy, existential thriller that [Alain] Delon, who died in 2024, might have been proud to star in, and in a sense did.” – Chuck Thompson, Sasquatch Country: Death, Myth, and Truth in the New American Wilderness “Mr. Thompson skillfully combines investigative journalism with wilderness exploration . .
Bobcats, “Twin Peaks,” deer: What influenced Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’ new novel
I love and often teach the memoir People Who Led to My Plays by Adrienne Kennedy. In the book, Kennedy lists all the diverse people, objects, works of art, images, songs, and events that shaped her as an artist. The result is a portrait of a singular artist, a time period, and a manual for becoming an artist. I have borrowed her form here to explore some of my influences. Many years ago, my parents sent me a video of a female bobcat being released in the woods outside their home in Northern Wisconsin. It was deep winter, the snow several feet high.
Wole Talabi on the intersection of first contact stories and mysteries
In 1985, just a few weeks after a bloodless coup during which Major-General Ibrahim Babangida overthrew the military government of Major General Muhammadu Buhari in Nigeria, American astronomer Carl Sagan published Contact. A novel in which humanity first encounters advanced extraterrestrial intelligence when a team of scientists at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) detects a radio signal from the star system Vega, located twenty-six light years away containing a sequence of prime numbers.
Harbin, capital of China’s Heilongjiang Province—what used to be known as Manchuria—China’s “Wild East.” It’s long been China’s most northerly and Russified city—train lines into Russia and for many decades run by the Russians to the warm-water port of Dalian and connecting to the Trans-Siberian Railway. And then, after 1917, a new Russian influx fleeing the Bolsheviks.