This chapter considers contemporary female True Crime writers through a critical lens. To support a reading in favour of Ann Rule as a landmark author within the genre, her trademark writing conventions are traced through to authors such as Katherine Ellison, Shiela Isenberg, Caitlin Rother, and Alia Trabucco Zerán. True Crime works, penned by these authors, are critically analysed here to consider their respective adherence to and deviations from Rule’s trademark qualities. This includes, but is not limited to, literary techniques, narrative methodologies, and the employment and utilisation of research materials. Authorial positioning and proximity are also considered, given Rule’s propensity for inserting herself into True Crime narration. Through a close reading of each author’s work, an argument is made that Rule, during her decades of writing, established a baseline for True Crime writing conventions that contemporary authors have built upon in their own works. This chapter also considers the ways in which contemporary writers have made their own advancements within the genre, to produce transgressive and experimental narratives with True Crime at their centres.