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True Crimes Books
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.11 — 267,875 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,650 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,661 ratings — published 1980
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,804 ratings — published 1987
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,825 ratings — published 2004
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.14 — 458,236 ratings — published 2017
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,334 ratings — published 1974
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,518 ratings — published 2003
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.97 — 363,777 ratings — published 2019
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.09 — 84,553 ratings — published 1995
Lying in Wait and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #17)
by (shelved 4 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,284 ratings — published 2014
The Want-Ad Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,302 ratings — published 1983
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,483 ratings — published 1984
For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,102 ratings — published 2005
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.07 — 50,449 ratings — published 2019
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,050 ratings — published 1986
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,177 ratings — published 2008
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.92 — 299,671 ratings — published 1994
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,237 ratings — published 2013
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,100 ratings — published
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.32 — 13,344 ratings — published 2006
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #16)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,209 ratings — published 2012
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,798 ratings — published 2003
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,938 ratings — published 1991
A Deadly Game (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,103 ratings — published 2005
Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,470 ratings — published 2005
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.91 — 108,839 ratings — published 2023
A Father's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,838 ratings — published 1994
L'Avversario (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,706 ratings — published 2000
Gardez l'oeil ouvert, Tome 1: 15 histoires de disparitions mystérieuses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,926 ratings — published
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,239 ratings — published 2022
Practice to Deceive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.55 — 5,528 ratings — published 2013
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,739 ratings — published 2001
Killer Cop: The Deviant Deputy Who Kidnapped, Raped and Killed (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.88 — 255 ratings — published 2018
Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,022 ratings — published 2020
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,288 ratings — published 1989
The Michigan Murders: The True Story of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,165 ratings — published 1976
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,652 ratings — published 2007
Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,151 ratings — published 2016
Filthy Rich: The True Story Behind the Jeffrey Epstein Sex Scandal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.40 — 11,692 ratings — published 2016
Jeffrey Dahmer: A Terrifying True Story of Rape, Murder & Cannibalism (The Serial Killer Books Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,462 ratings — published
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 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,774 ratings — published 2010
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.17 — 20,233 ratings — published 2017
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,830 ratings — published 2016
Illusion of Justice: Inside Making a Murderer and America's Broken System (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.18 — 866 ratings — published 2017
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,026 ratings — published 2004
A Killing in Amish Country: Sex, Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,332 ratings — published 2016
True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,298 ratings — published 2005
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town : The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 3.67 — 3,749 ratings — published 1999
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as true-crimes)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,605 ratings — published 1991
“We don't read true crime to condone it, we read it to understand it.”
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“When told he was being arrested for murder, Donnie's reply was simple and chilling.
"WHICH ONE?”
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"WHICH ONE?”
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