I was browsing the new book shelves this week at work and I came across a couple of books that sound interesting. As soon as they are cataloged they will be added to my reading piles. Today in the New York Times there was a review of Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith. Tirone-Smith writes of growing up in 1950s Connecticut with an autistic brother, and a best friend who is murdered by a serial killer. It seems I read about this somewhere else as well. When I saw we were getting it for our collection, I had to put a routing slip in it right away. My other find is Wilkie Collins's The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful Convictions by Rob Warden (editor) and Wilkie Collins. Collins wrote a fictional account of two brothers who were (wrongly) convicted of killing their brother in law in Vermont in 1819. Along with Collins's novel is the actual account of the legal case.
I also found this link at Reading Matters -- Google Book Search. I have been aware of their digitization project, and the legal problems that followed, but I hadn't actual seen the search engine for it. Now it is just a matter of deciding what to search for!