A Child's Book of True Crime is a novel by Australian author Chloe Hooper, published in 2001 by Penguin.

Some chapters tell an alternate version of the same story, a murder investigation written in the style of a children's book.

The Guardian gave the novel an average rating of 8 out of 10 based on reviews from multiple British newspapers.

[1] The Guardian described it as "a Russian doll of a novel" and praised it as "beguiling",[2] while The New Yorker said it was "suspenseful and self-conscious".

[4] A Child's Book of True Crime was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2002.