10 Best Comic Books That DON'T Have Superheroes

3. Green River Killer: A True Detective Story

True crime as a genre is generally quite perilous. There are dozens of tacky accounts out there that can sometimes mythologise serial killers and ignore the victims, but there is good work out there. The late Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, is frankly incredible, and succeeds in part because it spotlights the human cost of that particular killer's rampage; on those he killed, the families he terrorised, the detectives whose lives he consumed, and the will it takes to never give up the search for truth, justice and closure even decades after a case goes cold.

In a similar vein, Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case's Green River Killer: A True Detective Story also stands out as a story about the human cost of confronting real, human evil. Centred around the investigation into the Green River Killer, a murderer who terrorised Washington for close to two decades, and from the perspective of one cop who studied the case for most of his adult life, Jensen and Case's comic is truly spectacular - not least because of the author's personal connection to the case.

That connection? Jensen's father Tom is the book's protagonist, and was one of only few detectives who cracked the case and discovered that Gary Ridgway was the man responsible for upwards of 49 murders and disappearances in the Washington area.

Semi-biographical and unwavering its approach, A True Detective Story offers a fascinating and gut-wrenching look into the Green River Killer's crimes, and the inspiring story of the detectives who refused to let the case die.