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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 754,783 ratings — published 1966
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 56 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.11 — 271,699 ratings — published 2018
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,521 ratings — published 1974
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,305 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 — 781,945 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 — 469,879 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 — 86,533 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,639 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.07 — 51,989 ratings — published 2019
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,192 ratings — published 2004
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 — 373,862 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.01 — 231,610 ratings — published 2003
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 — 24,288 ratings — published 2010
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,888 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,496 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 — 194,309 ratings — published 2018
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,545 ratings — published 1994
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,205 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 — 122,640 ratings — published 2023
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,147 ratings — published 1991
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.08 — 73,012 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 — 27,363 ratings — published 2019
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,366 ratings — published 2019
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,577 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 — 9,059 ratings — published 2000
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,980 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 — 41,278 ratings — published 2019
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,140 ratings — published 2018
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,362 ratings — published 1997
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 30,820 ratings — published 2022
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,596 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 — 25,976 ratings — published 2019
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,751 ratings — published 2017
The Want-Ad Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,403 ratings — published 1983
And the Sea Will Tell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,734 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 — 15,247 ratings — published
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.48 — 36,459 ratings — published 2002
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,674 ratings — published 1981
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,590 ratings — published 2017
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,135 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 — 8,800 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 — 3,905 ratings — published 2016
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,756 ratings — published 2013
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,487 ratings — published 2012
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.32 — 13,535 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 — 9,463 ratings — published 1999
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,333 ratings — published 2025
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.41 — 57,346 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 — 13,712 ratings — published 2014
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,463 ratings — published 1989
“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
“Some cases have a stubborn truth no matter how hard we want it.”
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