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True crime Lists by Experts All Time Best Trending New By Book DNA List by Experts

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  • Kathryn Canavan True crime stories written by insiders and experts Book cover of A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming Book cover of Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Book cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Book cover of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
  • Dianne DeMille True crime and corruption Book cover of In Cold Blood Book cover of In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators Book cover of If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood Book cover of The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder Book cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  • Thomas Doherty Must-read true crime Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Book cover of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Book cover of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Book cover of In Cold Blood Book cover of My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir
  • Rod Sadler Killers Book cover of Murder Times Six: The True Story of the Wells Gray Murders Book cover of And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank Book cover of The Only Living Witness: The true story of serial sex killer Ted Bundy Book cover of The Onion Field Book cover of Leopold & Loeb Killed Bobby Franks
  • Glenn Stout The Roaring Twenties Book cover of Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood Book cover of The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York Book cover of Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend Book cover of The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America Book cover of For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago
  • Sarah Wise True crime shoiwng fact is FAR odder than fiction Book cover of The Murders at White House Farm: Jeremy Bamber and the Killing of His Family Book cover of The Hunt for the 60s’ Ripper Book cover of The Maul and the Pear Tree Book cover of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Book cover of Ten Rillington Place
  • Howard Sounes Biographies to put you in the mind of a criminal Book cover of Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell Book cover of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Book cover of Confessions of a Yakuza: A Life in Japan's Underworld Book cover of The Executioner's Song Book cover of Killing For Company
  • Paul Moses Non-fiction on the New York mafia Book cover of The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931 Book cover of The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia Book cover of Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace Book cover of The Two Mafias: A Transatlantic History, 1888-2008 Book cover of Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D'Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia
  • Nicole Maggi True crime to keep you up at night Book cover of And the Sea Will Tell Book cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Book cover of The Monster of Florence Book cover of Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments Book cover of Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
  • S.J. Peddie Life in the Mafia Book cover of Wise Guy Book cover of I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa Book cover of Little Man: The Gangster Life of Meyer Lansky Book cover of Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante Book cover of Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia
  • J.T. Hunter True crime and the dark side of human nature Book cover of In Cold Blood Book cover of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Book cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Book cover of Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI Book cover of True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
  • Alan R. Warren Covering the criminal justice system in America Book cover of In Cold Blood Book cover of Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit Book cover of In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators Book cover of Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror Book cover of Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
  • Eve Lazarus True crime books that read like thrillers Book cover of In Cold Blood Book cover of The Blooding: The Dramatic True Story of the First Murder Case Solved by Genetic "Fingerprinting" Book cover of The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Book cover of Who Killed Janet Smith? Book cover of On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
  • Blessin Adams Bloody true crime Book cover of Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey Book cover of The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing Book cover of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Book cover of The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
  • Katherine Ramsland True crime books that teach you about the minds of murderers Book cover of The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science Book cover of Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men Book cover of Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling Book cover of Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod Book cover of In Cold Blood
  • Rick Geary Unsolved murders Book cover of My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir Book cover of I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Book cover of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery Book cover of Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth
  • Mara Leveritt True crime books about cover-ups Book cover of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption Book cover of All the President's Men Book cover of The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs & Murder Book cover of The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History Book cover of Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
  • James Polchin Crime that reshapes our understanding of the past Book cover of The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America Book cover of The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York Book cover of The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Book cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Book cover of Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
  • Kathleen Brunelle True crime about mysterious disappearances Book cover of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation Book cover of True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray Book cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Book cover of If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children Book cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
  • Iain Parke Outlaw bikers Book cover of Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga Book cover of The Bandido Massacre Book cover of Outlaws: Inside the Violent World of Biker Gangs Book cover of Fallen Angel Book cover of The Brotherhoods: Inside the Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
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