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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6673 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 272,503 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5945 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 757,144 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4540 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,659 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4214 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 783,987 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 4012 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,786 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3707 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,908 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2824 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 86,861 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2588 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,873 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2400 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 52,253 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2223 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 306,484 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1982 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 375,487 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1889 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,128 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1584 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,271 ratings — published 2004
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1575 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 197,196 ratings — published 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1569 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,645 ratings — published 2019
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1564 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,266 ratings — published 1987
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1443 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,802 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1428 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 290,304 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1406 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,582 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 1352 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,384 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1280 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,646 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 1229 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,115 ratings — published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1162 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,899 ratings — published 2022
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1159 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,165 ratings — published 2002
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1116 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,775 ratings — published 2019
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1113 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,385 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1105 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,285 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1054 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,941 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1003 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,786 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 965 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,004 ratings — published 1983
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 960 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 125,308 ratings — published 2023
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 953 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 87,574 ratings — published 2006
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 945 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,449 ratings — published 2019
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 917 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,506 ratings — published 1992
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 913 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,273 ratings — published
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 910 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,749 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 877 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 60,821 ratings — published 2015
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 839 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,720 ratings — published 1984
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 838 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,522 ratings — published 2020
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 829 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,681 ratings — published 2008
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 829 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 152,141 ratings — published 2011
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 803 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,316 ratings — published 2019
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 795 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,270 ratings — published 2010
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 776 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,176 ratings — published 1991
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 38,217 ratings — published 2018
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 761 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,416 ratings — published 1997
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 746 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,361 ratings — published 1979
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 726 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,492 ratings — published 1989
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,989 ratings — published 2017
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,920 ratings — published 1991
“You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, mayb...more "You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, maybe some guests: enough to put up a fight. And you know they let themselves get tied up. You just know the guys said, 'We just want to tie you up. We won't hurt you.' You'd think the people would realize — why do they want to tie us up if they don't want to hurt us? But they bought it. It always gives us a little chuckle.”
― What Cops Know: Today's Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America's Streets
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, mayb...more "You should fight like hell if you get attacked on the street, or in your home. The old thinking was, especially with women, submit, give in, maybe the guy will give you a
break and not kill you. Now, maybe you will get raped, but
least you'll have the satisfaction of knowing you didn't
just lie down and take it. You don't know how many home-invasion scenes we walk in on where the people are sitting there all tied up and all dead. There'll be four, five people, a family, maybe some guests: enough to put up a fight. And you know they let themselves get tied up. You just know the guys said, 'We just want to tie you up. We won't hurt you.' You'd think the people would realize — why do they want to tie us up if they don't want to hurt us? But they bought it. It always gives us a little chuckle.”
― What Cops Know: Today's Police Tell the Inside Story of Their Work on America's Streets
“The sheriff peered over his eyeglasses and said, Your son is a suspect in the murder.”
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