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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6650 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 270,914 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5910 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 752,034 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4518 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,949 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4191 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 779,547 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3998 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,268 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3692 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,394 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2813 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 86,131 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2574 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,352 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2391 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 51,693 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2208 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,184 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1974 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 371,614 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1885 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 230,950 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1579 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,108 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1558 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,125 ratings — published 1987
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1556 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 190,727 ratings — published 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1550 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,242 ratings — published 2019
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1442 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,672 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1403 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,046 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1402 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,423 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 1349 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,163 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1280 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,491 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 1226 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 25,800 ratings — published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1152 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,713 ratings — published 2022
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1152 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,100 ratings — published 2002
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1113 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,340 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1106 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,434 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1097 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,206 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1049 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,694 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 997 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,700 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 961 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,952 ratings — published 1983
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 952 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 86,974 ratings — published 2006
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 942 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,268 ratings — published 2019
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 934 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 119,940 ratings — published 2023
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 915 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,442 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 — 15,218 ratings — published
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 898 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,592 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 871 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 60,514 ratings — published 2015
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 840 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,647 ratings — published 1984
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 832 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,460 ratings — published 2020
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 824 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 151,293 ratings — published 2011
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 823 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,608 ratings — published 2008
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 811 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 77,179 ratings — published 2019
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 793 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,118 ratings — published 2010
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 776 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,110 ratings — published 1991
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 760 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,644 ratings — published 2018
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 755 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,324 ratings — published 1997
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 740 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 24,247 ratings — published 1979
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,429 ratings — published 1989
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 714 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,838 ratings — published 1991
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 711 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,912 ratings — published 2017
“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
“Oh, Jeannie, I am so glad you woke me. I was having the worst nightmare. I felt like I was suffocating. I dreamed the Devil was trying to choke me to death.”
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