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The 27 Club
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3.84 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
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501 Most Notorious Crimes
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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4.01 avg rating — 5,160 ratings
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Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
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4.11 avg rating — 10,966 ratings
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Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean
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3.70 avg rating — 3,714 ratings
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Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
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4.03 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
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An American Tragedy
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3.97 avg rating — 38,738 ratings
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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
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3.52 avg rating — 4,647 ratings
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Blacklands (Exmoor Trilogy, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 10,524 ratings
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Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
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3.25 avg rating — 4,871 ratings
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Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America
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3.91 avg rating — 5,503 ratings
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The Broken Circle
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No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
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4.22 avg rating — 4,075 ratings
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Columbine: A True Crime Story
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3.84 avg rating — 1,214 ratings
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Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
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4.07 avg rating — 4,110 ratings
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Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
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4.05 avg rating — 6,630 ratings
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
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3.98 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
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3.96 avg rating — 3,218 ratings
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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
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3.93 avg rating — 10,006 ratings
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Exquisite Corpse: Surrealism and the Black Dahlia Murder
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3.94 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Fire Lover: A True Story
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3.75 avg rating — 2,585 ratings
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Freed to Kill: The True Story of Serial Murderer Larry Eyler
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3.73 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Getting Away with Murder
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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4.07 avg rating — 19,558 ratings
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He Killed Them All: Robert Durst and My Quest For Justice
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3.37 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 153,938 ratings
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Hidden Bodies (You, #2)
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3.75 avg rating — 91,404 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 728,027 ratings
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In the Crosshairs: Famous Assassinations and Attempts from Julius Caesar to John Lennon
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3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind Thirty-Year of Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
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3.95 avg rating — 5,324 ratings
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IT'S ME, Edward Wayne Edwards, the Serial Killer You Never Heard Of
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3.16 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Jane: A Murder
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4.30 avg rating — 6,205 ratings
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Justice: Crimes, Trials, and Punishments
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3.72 avg rating — 1,759 ratings
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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
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3.78 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
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Lakeshore Detectives: True Tales from the Big City
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
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3.61 avg rating — 26,767 ratings
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Lust Killer
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4.05 avg rating — 7,912 ratings
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
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3.95 avg rating — 11,180 ratings
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Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
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4.05 avg rating — 5,923 ratings
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
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4.09 avg rating — 82,265 ratings
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Morgue: A Life in Death
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3.85 avg rating — 3,016 ratings
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Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
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3.98 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8?
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3.43 avg rating — 3,507 ratings
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My Dark Places
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3.84 avg rating — 7,578 ratings
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My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
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3.91 avg rating — 33,586 ratings
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My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
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3.36 avg rating — 2,579 ratings
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On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women
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4.13 avg rating — 3,008 ratings
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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
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3.79 avg rating — 23,324 ratings
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Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,610 ratings
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Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
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3.75 avg rating — 3,724 ratings
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The Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette: September 18, 1907 through March 30, 1908
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
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4.13 avg rating — 5,981 ratings
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Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter
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3.57 avg rating — 2,899 ratings
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Small Sacrifices
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4.26 avg rating — 32,329 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
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4.22 avg rating — 108,330 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.07 avg rating — 611,427 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 239,753 ratings
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 181,326 ratings
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 96,162 ratings
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Boy in the Box: The Unsolved Case Of America's Unknown Child
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3.97 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
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3.60 avg rating — 1,455 ratings
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The Butterfly Garden: Surviving Childhood on the Run with One of America's Most Wanted
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3.82 avg rating — 985 ratings
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The Cases That Haunt Us
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3.98 avg rating — 16,783 ratings
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The Crime of the Century
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3.99 avg rating — 1,695 ratings
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The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
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3.71 avg rating — 360 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 757,597 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes
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3.75 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Executioner's Song
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4.05 avg rating — 23,270 ratings
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The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers who Inspired Chicago
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3.64 avg rating — 4,982 ratings
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The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
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3.86 avg rating — 27,686 ratings
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The Innocent Killer: A True Story of a Wrongful Conviction and its Astonishing Aftermath
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3.59 avg rating — 1,470 ratings
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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3.87 avg rating — 84,376 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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3.41 avg rating — 4,400 ratings
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The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare
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3.84 avg rating — 3,535 ratings
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The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
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3.87 avg rating — 5,334 ratings
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
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3.34 avg rating — 1,187 ratings
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The Love of a Bad Man
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3.74 avg rating — 547 ratings
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The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
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3.63 avg rating — 6,913 ratings
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The Monster of Florence
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3.76 avg rating — 36,698 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...and Finding the Zodiac Killer
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3.62 avg rating — 5,657 ratings
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The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
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4.02 avg rating — 14,921 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,137 ratings
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The Princes in the Tower
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3.87 avg rating — 7,738 ratings
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The Psychopath Whisperer: The Science of Those Without Conscience
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4.06 avg rating — 3,930 ratings
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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
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4.08 avg rating — 4,765 ratings
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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America's Coldest Cases
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3.19 avg rating — 1,553 ratings
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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3.51 avg rating — 25,064 ratings
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The World's Ten Most Evil Men - From Twisted Dictators to Child Killers.
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3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Yoga Store Murder: The Shocking True Account of the Lululemon Athletica Killing
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4.08 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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3.63 avg rating — 5,173 ratings
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
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3.66 avg rating — 8,569 ratings
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True Crime: An American Anthology
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3.84 avg rating — 398 ratings
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True Stories of Law & Order: SVU: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show
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3.81 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
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3.91 avg rating — 7,058 ratings
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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4.01 avg rating — 224,972 ratings
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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4.08 avg rating — 212,479 ratings
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What Lisa Knew: The Truth and Lies of the Steinberg Case
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3.69 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Who Killed These Girls?: Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
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3.42 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
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Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
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4.06 avg rating — 12,885 ratings
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Why We Love Serial Killers: The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
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3.23 avg rating — 738 ratings
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