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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6697 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 274,646 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5982 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 762,212 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4489 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,306 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4233 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 788,027 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 4020 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,348 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3731 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 475,885 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2841 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,578 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2594 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,380 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2416 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 52,751 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2239 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,237 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2003 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 378,718 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1896 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 233,237 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1587 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,420 ratings — published 2004
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1582 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 202,885 ratings — published 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1577 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 74,675 ratings — published 2019
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1568 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,368 ratings — published 1987
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1453 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 296,005 ratings — published 2018
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1447 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,937 ratings — published 2013
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1410 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,706 ratings — published 1986
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1356 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,544 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1286 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,772 ratings — published 2008
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1238 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,386 ratings — published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1161 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 31,083 ratings — published 2022
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1160 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,221 ratings — published 2002
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1123 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 105,079 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1114 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,396 ratings — published 2000
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1113 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,426 ratings — published 2019
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1058 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 21,191 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1004 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,866 ratings — published 2017
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 979 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 130,794 ratings — published 2023
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 971 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,068 ratings — published 1983
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 954 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 88,125 ratings — published 2006
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 948 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,612 ratings — published 2019
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 922 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,589 ratings — published 1992
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 916 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,316 ratings — published
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 911 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,897 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 883 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 61,638 ratings — published 2015
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 837 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,566 ratings — published 2020
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 833 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,734 ratings — published 2008
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 833 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,790 ratings — published 1984
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 830 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 152,991 ratings — published 2011
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 800 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,470 ratings — published 2019
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 796 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,419 ratings — published 2010
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 772 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,240 ratings — published 1991
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 763 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,677 ratings — published 2018
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,581 ratings — published 1997
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,494 ratings — published 1979
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 732 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,549 ratings — published 1989
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 720 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.25 — 107,782 ratings — published 2026
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 718 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 10,070 ratings — published 2017
“there's a part in the essay that kind of does this academic "Let's unpack the idea of Lynchian and what Lynchian means is something about the unbelievably grotesque existing in a kind of union with the unbelievably banal," and then it gives a series of scenarios about what -- what is and what isn't Lynchian. Jeffrey Dahmer was borderline Lynchian...what was Lynchian was having the actual food products next to the disembodied bits of the corpse. I guess the big one is, you know, a regular domestic murder is not Lynchian. But if the man -- if the police come to the scene and see the man standing over the body and the woman -- let's see, the woman's '50s bouffant is undisturbed and the man and the cops have this conversation about the fact that the man killed the woman because she persistently refused to buy, say, for instance, Jif peanut butter rather than Skippy, and how very, very important that is, and if the cops found themselves somehow agreeing that there were major differences between the brands and that a wife who didn't recognize those differences was deficient in her wifely duties, that would be Lynchian -- this weird confluence of very dark, surreal, violent stuff and absolute, almost Norman Rockwell, banal, American stuff, which is terrain he's been working for quite a while -- I mean, at least since -- at least since "Blue Velvet.”
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