The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
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This first-of-its-kind journalistic exploration of the people behind their crimes flips the true crime narrative on its head. Drawing on the realities faced by himself and three other men, Lennon offers a thought-provoking perspective from within prison walls.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 * An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best of 2025
In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all.
The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered the New York prison system with a sentence of 28 years to life but after he stepped into a writing workshop a...



























