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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 153,724 ratings
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Cult of the Great Eleven
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3.40 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
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3.83 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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Murder By the Bay: Historic Homicide in and About the City of San Francisco
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3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Six Gun Sound: The Early History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra – An Honest 14-Year Memoir of Violence and Danger in Wilderness Protection
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3.77 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
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A Death in California
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3.63 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Angel of Darkness: The True Story of Randy Kraft and the Most Heinous Murder Spree
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3.88 avg rating — 648 ratings
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Black Dahlia, Red Rose
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3.74 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 123,596 ratings
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The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
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4.01 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
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3.93 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
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The Newhall Incident
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3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Legal Executions in California: A Comprehensive Registry, 1851-2005
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Family
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3.90 avg rating — 2,704 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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4.11 avg rating — 262,915 ratings
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Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders
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3.69 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
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4.11 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Murder in the Garden: Famous Crimes of Early Fresno County
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4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook
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4.13 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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4.33 avg rating — 496 ratings
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California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Shallow Grave in Trinity County
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3.95 avg rating — 121 ratings
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The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
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3.61 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The California Snatch Racket: Kidnappings During the Prohibition and Depression Eras
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Town
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4.29 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
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3.95 avg rating — 11,158 ratings
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Black Bart: Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Corpus Delicti
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3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Hollywood Babylon (Hollywood Babylon, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 6,772 ratings
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Murder in the Garden, Volume II: More Famous Crimes of Early Fresno County
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Stalemate: A Shocking True Story of Child Abduction and Murder
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3.63 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
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4.42 avg rating — 11,868 ratings
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Dark and Tangled Threads of Crime: San Francisco's Famous Police Detective Isaiah W. Lees
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Defense Is Ready: Life In The Trenches Of Criminal Law
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4.16 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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3.63 avg rating — 5,168 ratings
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Showdown!: Lionhearted Lawmen of Old California
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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4.04 avg rating — 44,952 ratings
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California Badmen: Mean Men with Guns on the Old West Coast
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Mafia's President: Nixon and the Mob
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3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men: Early California Stagecoach Robbers and Their Desperate Careers 1856-1900
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Nixon Volume #2: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972
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4.10 avg rating — 446 ratings
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California Desperadoes: Stories of Early California Outlaws in Their Own Words
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3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
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3.74 avg rating — 334 ratings
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Folsom's 93: The Lives and Crimes of Folsom Prison's Executed Men
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3.85 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Hands Through Stone: How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom's Prison Walls
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4.13 avg rating — 39 ratings
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