Probably not the right place to post this, Vance, but the characters in the book did criminal acts. I just need to share the story.
I just finished THE SOUND OF GRAVEL by Ruth Warriner. Not published as a crime story, but this memoir was chilling. I could not read it at night as it caused me to have dwell on the characters and their plight.
This is a story that includes welfare fraud, neglect, child abuse, wife abuse, as well as illegally transporting people into the US.