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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6626 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 267,946 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5878 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,861 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4487 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,693 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4152 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,712 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3966 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,350 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3643 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 458,440 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2773 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 84,599 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2554 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,161 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2360 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 50,477 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2185 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 299,743 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1944 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 363,945 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1850 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 228,519 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1560 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,830 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1551 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,812 ratings — published 1987
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1528 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 70,053 ratings — published 2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1499 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,353 ratings — published 2018
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1441 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,328 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1391 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,328 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1382 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,064 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 1334 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,781 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1269 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,181 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 1203 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 25,140 ratings — published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1140 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,254 ratings — published 2022
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1140 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,966 ratings — published 2002
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1106 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,226 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1095 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,702 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1079 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,034 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1036 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,244 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 — 22,501 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 950 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,860 ratings — published 1983
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 938 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 85,893 ratings — published 2006
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 936 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,921 ratings — published 2019
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 907 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,105 ratings — published
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 902 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,250 ratings — published 1992
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 894 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,255 ratings — published 2013
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 872 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 109,077 ratings — published 2023
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 855 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 59,807 ratings — published 2015
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 827 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,328 ratings — published 2020
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 823 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,486 ratings — published 1984
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 816 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,408 ratings — published 2008
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 811 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 149,409 ratings — published 2011
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 808 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,842 ratings — published 2019
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 788 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,753 ratings — published 2010
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,940 ratings — published 1991
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 750 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,578 ratings — published 2018
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 747 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,209 ratings — published 1997
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 732 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,897 ratings — published 1979
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,609 ratings — published 1991
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 707 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,290 ratings — published 1989
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 704 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,778 ratings — published 2017
“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
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