THE PHILOSOPHY OF CRIME: Searching for the Truth in True Crime, James Renner
Investigative reporter, author and popular host of true crime podcasts Renner tackles the biggest questions behind our obsession with true crime–Why is true crime so popular? How can lawyers defend guilty people? Why does the US still have the death penalty? and many more–and looks to classical philosophy for the answers. (Morehouse Publishing, World English […]
SCOUT CAMP: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America, James Renner
In his most explosive book to date, SCOUT CAMP: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies inside the Boy Scouts of America (Citadel, February 2025), acclaimed journalist, author, creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture of sexual abuse, and the traumatic—even […]
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James Renner is a journalist and author of several works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel The Man from Primrose Lane (Picador/Macmillan, 2013), True Crime Addict (Picador/Macmillan, 2017). Little, Crazy Children (Citadel/Kensington), was released in June, 2023. Scout Camp: Sex, Death and Secret Societies was published in February 2025 (Citadel/Kensington), and A Cruise to Nowhere: My […]
SCOUT CAMP, James Renner
True crime journalist and author of True Crime Addict James Renner returns to the camp where he worked as a teen, where a violent assault ended with one boy dead and another in the hospital, asking: what role did a secret society play in the events of that summer? And how did LGBTQ policies of […]