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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 749,790 ratings — published 1966
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.11 — 270,213 ratings — published 2018
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,065 ratings — published 1974
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,656 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.00 — 777,545 ratings — published 2003
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.14 — 465,277 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 85,747 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,104 ratings — published 2009
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.97 — 369,729 ratings — published 2019
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.07 — 51,416 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.01 — 230,380 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,021 ratings — published 2004
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 17 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,042 ratings — published 2010
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.40 — 287,398 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,363 ratings — published 1986
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.47 — 187,647 ratings — published 2018
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 302,946 ratings — published 1994
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,055 ratings — published 1987
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 117,441 ratings — published 2023
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,067 ratings — published 1991
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,319 ratings — published 2019
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.08 — 71,464 ratings — published 2019
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,179 ratings — published 2019
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,420 ratings — published 2008
Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,005 ratings — published 2000
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,926 ratings — published 1983
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.03 — 40,367 ratings — published 2019
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.88 — 127,474 ratings — published 2018
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,299 ratings — published 1997
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,610 ratings — published 2022
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,524 ratings — published 1981
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,265 ratings — published 2019
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.14 — 25,617 ratings — published 2019
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,665 ratings — published 2017
The Want-Ad Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,358 ratings — published 1983
And the Sea Will Tell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,709 ratings — published 1991
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,201 ratings — published
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.48 — 36,394 ratings — published 2002
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,064 ratings — published 2002
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.65 — 8,742 ratings — published 2016
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,870 ratings — published 2016
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,593 ratings — published 2013
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,337 ratings — published 2012
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.32 — 13,471 ratings — published 2006
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,406 ratings — published 1999
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,365 ratings — published 2025
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.53 — 147,205 ratings — published 2021
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.41 — 56,608 ratings — published 2017
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,468 ratings — published 2017
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,602 ratings — published 2014
“My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to follow their paths through both the gloom and the light. They were worth more to us than the empty human shells we have taken them for: they were children who cried for their mothers; they were young women who fell in love; they endured childbirth and the deaths of parents; they laughed and celebrated Christmas. They argued with their siblings, they wept, they dreamed, they hurt, they enjoyed small triumphs. The courses their lives took mirrored that of so many other women of the Victorian age, and yet so singular in the way they ended. It is for them that I write this book. I do so in the hope that we may now hear their stories clearly and give back to them that which was so brutally taken away with their lives: their dignity.”
― The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
― The Five: The Lives of Jack the Ripper's Women
“When men committed crimes in the 1930s, they were lauded as public enemies and assigned status as daring desperadoes. Their women were consigned to the back alleys of insults and innuendo.”
― Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang
― Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang
