True Crime

True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people. The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Still others revisit historic crimes (or alleged crimes) and propose solutions, such as books examining political assassinations, well-known unsolved murders, or the deaths of celebrities.

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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town
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London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
A Hymn to Life
All Good People Here
Such Quiet Girls
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
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The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
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    The Ugly Underneath: Navigating the Emotional Toll of Investigating Crimes Against Children
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    Giveaway dates: Jun 14 - Jun 28, 2026

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    The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
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  • The Vampire's Cult by Chet Hardin
    The Vampire's Cult: The Untold Story of Obsession, Control, and a Shocking Small-Town Murder
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  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
    In Cold Blood
    The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
    Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
    Columbine
    American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    Green River, Running Red
    Small Sacrifices
    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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    The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Night Stalker by Philip CarloGreen River, Running Red by Ann RuleThe Serial Killer Files by Harold SchechterMind Hunter by John E. Douglas
    Non-fiction books about Serial Killers
    155 books — 167 voters

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    Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
    189 books — 138 voters
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    Women in the U.S.
    258 books — 37 voters


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