Get a dose of reality with these fascinating legal nonfiction and true crime stories:

Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob, by Bob Delaney

Hello Charlie: Letters from a Serial Killer, by Charlie Hess and Davin Seay

Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip, By John Huddy

The Good Rat, by Jimmy Breslin

The Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail, and his quest for justice, by Abraham Bolden

Murdered by Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain, and Injustice, by Maureen Faulkner and Michael A. Smerconish

The Fox and the Flies: the Secret Life of a Grotesque Master Criminal, by Charles von Onselen

Simon Says: A True Story of Boys, Guns, and Murder in the Rocky Mountain West, by Kathryn Eastburn

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder and Other True Cases, by Ann Rule

Books on Trial: Red Scare in the Heartland, by Shirley and Wayne Wiegand