Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death in the Air | 2017 | Kate Winkler Dawson | Buy |
| 2 | American Sherlock | 2020 | Kate Winkler Dawson | Buy |
| 3 | All That Is Wicked | 2022 | Kate Winkler Dawson | Buy |
| 4 | The Ghost Club | 2023 | Kate Winkler Dawson | Buy |
| 5 | The Sinners All Bow | 2025 | Kate Winkler Dawson | Buy |
Kate Winkler Dawson’s non-fiction books are standalone works, each focused on a different historical crime or forensic investigation. They share a common approach: Dawson reconstructs past events using archival records, trial transcripts, and newspaper accounts, then presents them in a narrative style that reads more like a novel than an academic study.
Death in the Air (2017) covers London in 1952, interleaving a serial killer case with the Great Smog that killed thousands. American Sherlock (2020) profiles forensic scientist Edward Oscar Heinrich. All That Is Wicked (2022) looks at nineteenth-century efforts to understand the criminal mind. The Ghost Club (2023) explores a Victorian society that investigated the supernatural alongside genuine scientific questions. The Sinners All Bow (2025) is her most recent work.
The books are best enjoyed by readers who like their true crime rooted in history and told through careful research rather than speculation.