True Crime

1
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
22,333 members
702 reviews
4
6 Members
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3
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
5,040 members
90 reviews
4
5 Members
dara85, Moomin_Mama, ahef1963, Emma_Holgate, NitaBirdsong
4
Before He Wakes: A True Story of Money, Marriage, Sex and Murder
by Jerry Bledsoe
151 members
1 review
3.8
4 Members
dara85, Emma_Holgate, telkip, MrBResearch
6
Homicide : A Year On The Killing Streets
by David Simon
2,200 members
45 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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8
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
23,864 members
467 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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9
The Monster of Florence
by Douglas Preston
2,642 members
108 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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11
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
by Jason Moss
379 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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12
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
8,906 members
223 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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13
Bitter Harvest
by Ann Rule
785 members
20 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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14
Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection
by Emlyn Williams
201 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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15
Serpentine
by Thomas Thompson
267 members
6 reviews
4.2
2 Members
dara85, Moomin_Mama
17
Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland
by Patricia L. Bryan
130 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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18
The 4 O'Clock Murders
by Scott Anderson
48 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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19
The Killer of Little Shepherds
by Douglas Starr
610 members
33 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Luchtpint, NitaBirdsong
22
Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia
by John Gilmore
228 members
4 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
24
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder (Onyx)
by Jerry Bledsoe
397 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
dara85, telkip
25
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
2,917 members
74 reviews
3.9
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
26
A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders
by Gary M. Lavergne
85 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
27
Honor Thy Father
by Gay Talese
447 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
hipdeep, NitaBirdsong
28
The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811
by P. D. James
443 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
ArchDucchess, NitaBirdsong
30
The Onion Field
by Harold Becker
1,012 members
17 reviews
3.8
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
32
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
by Robert Jay Lifton
860 members
8 reviews
4
2 Members
aulsmith, NitaBirdsong
33
On South Mountain : The Dark Secrets of the Goler Clan
by David Cruise
90 members
3 reviews
4
Member
NitaBirdsong
34
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
by Ben Mezrich
3,087 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
hipdeep, NitaBirdsong
35
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
2,906 members
50 reviews
4
2 Members
Moomin_Mama, NitaBirdsong
36
Happy Like Murderers
by Gordon Burn
193 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
Moomin_Mama, NitaBirdsong
37
Dead Air - The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit
by Beth Bednar
9 members
1 review
½ 4.5
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
38
The Mormon Murders
by Steven Naifeh
308 members
1 review
½ 3.4
2 Members
aulsmith, NitaBirdsong
40
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
by Lawrence Schiller
392 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
42
Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
4,824 members
146 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
aulsmith, NitaBirdsong
43
The Yale Murder
by Peter Meyer
30 members
3.2
2 Members
aulsmith, NitaBirdsong
44
Red Ripper
by Peter Conradi
83 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Luchtpint
46
The Killer Department
by Robert Cullen
111 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
Luchtpint
47
Murder in the Adirondacks
by Craig Brandon
50 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
NitaBirdsong
48
The Big Bankroll: The Life and times of Arnold Rothstein
by Leo Katcher
28 members
½ 3.6
Member
hipdeep
49
The Cases That Haunt Us
by John Douglas
992 members
16 reviews
3.8
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
50
After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive
by Lisa R. Cohen
65 members
4 reviews
4
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
51
House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying
by John Dean
175 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
dara85, NitaBirdsong
52
Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates
by Stewart P. Evans
27 members
½ 4.4
Member
Luchtpint
53
Con man : a master swindler's own story
by J. R. Weil
58 members
½ 3.3
Member
NitaBirdsong
54
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
by Eric Jager
272 members
13 reviews
3.8
Member
Luchtpint
56
The Search for the Green River Killer
by Carlton Smith
276 members
½ 3.6
Member
Luchtpint
57
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
by John Dickson Carr
72 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
NitaBirdsong
58
Innocent Blood: A True Story of Terror and Justice
by Terry Ganey
56 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
59
From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb
by Timothy Knatchbull
44 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
NitaBirdsong
60
Everything She Ever Wanted
by Ann Rule
646 members
8 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
63
Inside the Mind of BTK
by John Douglas
201 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
64
The Shoemaker : The Anatomy of a Psychotic
by Flora Rheta Schreiber
184 members
3 reviews
3.2
Member
dara85
65
Searching for the Beaumont Children: Australia's Most Famous Unsolved Mystery
by Alan J. Whiticker
18 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
NitaBirdsong
67
Double Jeopardy
by Bob Hill
57 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
69
A Rip in Heaven
by Jeanine Cummins
367 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NitaBirdsong
70
When She Was Bad...: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence
by Patricia Pearson
117 members
1 review
½ 3.4
Member
NitaBirdsong
71
Butcher, Baker: A True Account of a Serial Murder (Onyx)
by Walter Gilmour
71 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
72
Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?
by Mark Fuhrman
249 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
73
A Twisted Faith
by Gregg Olsen
135 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
74
Provenance: how a con man and a forger rewrote the history of modern art
by Laney Salisbury
587 members
23 reviews
4
Member
NitaBirdsong
75
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
3,790 members
206 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
dara85
76
Unbridled Rage
by Gene O'Shea
27 members
3.2
Member
NitaBirdsong
77
A Death in Belmont
by Sebastian Junger
1,117 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
NitaBirdsong
78
Doc: The Rape of the town of Lovell
by Jack Olsen
171 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
79
And the Sea Will Tell
by Vincent Bugliosi
687 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NitaBirdsong
80
With Murderous Intent
by Robert Hemming
16 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
dara85
81
Mad Mary Lamb
by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
200 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
NitaBirdsong
82
And the Dead Shall Rise
by Steve Oney
255 members
4 reviews
4.2
Member
NitaBirdsong
83
True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders
by Dina Di Mambro
36 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
dara85
84
The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
by Anthony Flacco
168 members
7 reviews
3.9
Member
NitaBirdsong
86
The Lizard King: The True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers
by Bryan Christy
118 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NitaBirdsong
87
Massacre at Mountain Meadows
by Ronald W. Walker
172 members
6 reviews
4
Member
NitaBirdsong
88
The Michigan Murders
by Edward Keyes
187 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
90
A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
by Tal McThenia
80 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NitaBirdsong
92
Blood Bath
by Susan D. Mustafa
32 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
93
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by David King
794 members
51 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
NitaBirdsong
94
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
by Bill James
459 members
28 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
95
The Woodchipper Murder
by Arthur Herzog
64 members
5 reviews
3.2
Member
dara85
96
Beyond All Reason
by David Smith
79 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
97
Poisons: From Hemlock to Botox to the Killer Bean of Calabar
by Peter Macinnis
266 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
NitaBirdsong
98
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by Gitta Sereny
370 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
NitaBirdsong
99
On the Road to Villisca: The Hunt for the Midwest Axemen
by Hank Brewster
6 members
1 review
4
Member
NitaBirdsong
100
The Lost King of France: A True Story of Revolution, Revenge, and DNA
by Deborah Cadbury
418 members
11 reviews
4.1
Member
NitaBirdsong