True Crime Books

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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,961 members
515 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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2
The Stranger Beside Me
by Ann Rule
3,388 members
87 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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3
Dead by Sunset
by Ann Rule
819 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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4
Bitter Harvest
by Ann Rule
862 members
19 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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5
The Blooding
by Joseph Wambaugh
640 members
8 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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6
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
5,736 members
100 reviews
4
3 Members
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Fatal Vision
by Joe McGinniss
1,040 members
24 reviews
4
3 Members
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8
Zodiac
by Robert Graysmith
1,717 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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9
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
by Lawrence Schiller
442 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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10
Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers
by Darcy O'Brien
244 members
1 review
½ 3.7
3 Members
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11
Blood and Money
by Thomas Thompson
387 members
5 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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12
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by Gitta Sereny
401 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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13
Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen
by Brian Masters
318 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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15
Until the Twelfth of Never
by Bella Stumbo
91 members
3 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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16
The Search for the Green River Killer
by Carlton Smith
318 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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18
Serpentine
by Thomas Thompson
287 members
6 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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19
The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy
by Stephen G. Michaud
400 members
7 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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20
Echoes in the Darkness
by Joseph Wambaugh
537 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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21
Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson
by Keith Ablow
109 members
2 reviews
3.1
2 Members
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22
Everything She Ever Wanted
by Ann Rule
712 members
8 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer
by John Leake
124 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
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24
Roadside Prey
by Alva Busch
32 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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25
Dead Air - The Disappearance of Jodi Huisentruit
by Beth Bednar
10 members
1 review
½ 4.5
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26
Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection
by Emlyn Williams
213 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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27
The Ultimate Evil
by Maury Terry
320 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Crypto-Willobie
28
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum
by Jason Felch
282 members
9 reviews
4
Member
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29
In Broad Daylight
by Harry N. MacLean
254 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
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30
Murder in Little Egypt
by Darcy O'Brien
192 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
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31
A Killer among Us (Onyx True Crime)
by Charles Bosworth
85 members
3.1
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32
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder
by Ann Rule
437 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
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33
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
by Gordon Burn
155 members
4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
34
Inside the Mind of BTK
by John Douglas
251 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
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35
The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey
by John Dickson Carr
80 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
Crypto-Willobie
36
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
16,956 members
313 reviews
3.9
Member
mmignano11
37
The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811
by P. D. James
478 members
11 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
Crypto-Willobie
38
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
by Harold Schechter
576 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
Crypto-Willobie
39
The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
3,190 members
50 reviews
4
Member
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40
Columbine
by Dave Cullen
4,353 members
221 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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41
Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case
by George Waller
146 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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42
Blind Faith
by Joe McGinniss
488 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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43
The Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
by Jason Moss
419 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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44
The Boston Strangler
by Gerold Frank
372 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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45
Innocent Blood: A True Story of Terror and Justice
by Terry Ganey
63 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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46
Blind Love : The True Story of the Texas Cadet Murders
by Peter Meyer
28 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
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49
In Contempt
by Christopher A. Darden
426 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
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50
Cold Storage
by Don Lasseter
66 members
1 review
4.1
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51
Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth
by Carlton Smith
49 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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52
Fire Lover
by Joseph Wambaugh
409 members
9 reviews
3.8
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53
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed
by Michelle Knight
585 members
47 reviews
4.1
Member
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54
The UNMASKING MARRIED TO A RAPIST
by Kevin Flynn
17 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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55
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by Gregg Olsen
1,773 members
71 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
56
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham
653 members
21 reviews
4.1
Member
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57
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
by John Glatt
81 members
5 reviews
4
Member
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58
The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
by James Patterson
174 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
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59
You'll Never Find My Body
by Don Lasseter
23 members
1 review
4.2
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dara85
61
Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets
by Gregg Olsen
327 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
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dara85
62
Happy Like Murderers
by Gordon Burn
210 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6