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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 273,966 ratings — published 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 474,408 ratings — published 2017
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,148 ratings — published 1974
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 786,519 ratings — published 2003
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,332 ratings — published 1966
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,653 ratings — published 1986
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,299 ratings — published 1995
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,057 ratings — published 1980
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,319 ratings — published 1987
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 87,951 ratings — published 2006
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.48 — 36,516 ratings — published 2002
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.49 — 134,129 ratings — published 2025
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 74,313 ratings — published 2019
Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Uncovered (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,450 ratings — published 2019
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 61,380 ratings — published 2015
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,966 ratings — published 2019
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,297 ratings — published
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,787 ratings — published 2003
The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 102,108 ratings — published 1987
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,542 ratings — published 1994
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,725 ratings — published 2008
The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy (James Patterson True Crime, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,468 ratings — published 2025
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,438 ratings — published 2024
Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.04 — 162,656 ratings — published 1996
Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,910 ratings — published 2022
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 128,366 ratings — published 2021
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 31,012 ratings — published 2022
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.67 — 278,024 ratings — published 2019
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,009 ratings — published 2021
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.25 — 23,205 ratings — published 1985
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,704 ratings — published 2017
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 61,244 ratings — published 1989
Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,218 ratings — published 2017
Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,473 ratings — published 2014
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.03 — 42,020 ratings — published 2019
Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,410 ratings — published 1985
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,280 ratings — published 2019
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 247,973 ratings — published 1979
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,340 ratings — published 2000
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,450 ratings — published 1979
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,286 ratings — published 2018
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,704 ratings — published 2008
The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...and Finding the Zodiac Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 5,799 ratings — published 2014
Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.31 — 32,611 ratings — published 2003
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,377 ratings — published 2010
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,189 ratings — published 2009
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,665 ratings — published 1996
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,158 ratings — published 2016
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,257 ratings — published 2010
Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as real-crime)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,855 ratings — published 1992
