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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6591 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 262,810 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5797 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 725,030 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4433 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 111,464 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4118 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 754,351 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3919 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,687 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3586 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 441,694 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2739 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 81,894 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2531 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,030 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2315 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 48,112 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2159 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 294,099 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1911 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 349,770 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1822 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 224,347 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1548 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,232 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1542 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,255 ratings — published 1987
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1491 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,566 ratings — published 2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1437 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 162,918 ratings — published 2018
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1435 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.61 — 26,694 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1370 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 280,632 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1367 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,363 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 1327 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,280 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1257 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 36,612 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 1170 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,880 ratings — published 2019
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1138 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,680 ratings — published 2002
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1122 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,382 ratings — published 2022
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1099 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,937 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1084 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 102,169 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1057 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,741 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1022 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,494 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 995 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,127 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 938 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,719 ratings — published 1983
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 930 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,268 ratings — published 2019
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 922 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 84,142 ratings — published 2006
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 902 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,886 ratings — published
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 890 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,829 ratings — published 1992
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 889 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,584 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 848 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 58,624 ratings — published 2015
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 828 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,072 ratings — published 2020
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 810 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,979 ratings — published 2019
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 809 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,023 ratings — published 2008
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 809 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,194 ratings — published 1984
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 793 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 145,239 ratings — published 2011
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 783 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,045 ratings — published 2010
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 780 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 89,936 ratings — published 2023
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 759 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,639 ratings — published 1991
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 743 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,977 ratings — published 1997
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 730 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,001 ratings — published 2018
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 720 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,212 ratings — published 1979
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 703 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,915 ratings — published 1989
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 696 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.36 — 20,148 ratings — published 1991
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 695 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,488 ratings — published 2017
“I loved the True Crime Story "Fighting the Devil" by Jeannie Walker. It is such an interesting book.”
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“One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.
The doorbell rings.
No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.
This is how it ends for you.
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.
Open the door. Show us your face.
Walk into the light.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The doorbell rings.
No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.
This is how it ends for you.
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.
Open the door. Show us your face.
Walk into the light.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
