Murder by the Book

S1 • E1

James Ellroy

In 1958 Jean Ellroy, a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was strangled and her body dumped on a roadway in a seedy LA suburb. Her killer was never found and the police dismissed her as a casualty of a cheap Saturday night.

S1 • E2

Michael Connelly

S1 • E3

Faye Kellerman

The story of Tonica Jenkins,who faked her way into Yale and then attempted to fake her own death using the body of another woman.

S1 • E4

Jonathan Kellerman

Kellerman discusses a complex insurance scheme that involves murder

S1 • E5

Lisa Scottoline

The case of 37-year-old schoolteacher Susan G. Reinert, who was murdered by morphine injection in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1979.