If your biggest problem this summer is sleeping too well at night, we’ve got the solution: gruesome, salacious and tragic tales of true crime in our own backyard. Nothing passes hours at the beach quite like pages and pages of axemen, murderesses and cannibalism. But for the deep divers out there, there’s also plenty of material on heavy, thought-provoking issues like humanitarian crises, police corruption and racial violence. Pick your poison.
Click here for our picks for addictive Louisiana true crime reads.