A Child's Book of True Crime is a novel by Australian author Chloe Hooper, published in 2001 by Penguin. It was shortlisted for the 2002 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Kate is a young schoolteacher working in a small community in Tasmania. She begins an affair with the parent of one of her students. Some chapters tell an alternate version of the same story, a murder investigation written in the style of a children's book.
The Guardian described it as "a Russian doll of a novel" and praised it as "beguiling", while The New Yorker said it was "suspenseful and self-conscious". The A.V. Club gave a mixed review, stating that the short book is "padded by redundant passages", while saying parts of the book were "vivid and witty".
A Child's Book of True Crime was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2002.