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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 760,004 ratings — published 1966
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 57 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.11 — 273,471 ratings — published 2018
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,121 ratings — published 1974
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.13 — 116,014 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 — 786,290 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 — 474,186 ratings — published 2017
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,158 ratings — published 2009
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 87,252 ratings — published 1995
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,726 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.00 — 21,351 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 — 377,318 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 — 52,531 ratings — published 2019
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 18 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,473 ratings — published 2010
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.40 — 292,676 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,648 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 — 200,352 ratings — published 2018
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,430 ratings — published 1994
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.26 — 33,310 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 — 128,571 ratings — published 2023
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.08 — 74,250 ratings — published 2019
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.13 — 13,209 ratings — published 1991
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,531 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 — 17,406 ratings — published 2019
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,719 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 — 9,128 ratings — published 2000
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.12 — 25,027 ratings — published 1983
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.08 — 31,007 ratings — published 2022
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.03 — 41,996 ratings — published 2019
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.88 — 128,773 ratings — published 2018
The Want-Ad Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,435 ratings — published 1983
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,480 ratings — published 1997
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,950 ratings — published 2019
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.80 — 22,825 ratings — published 2017
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,191 ratings — published 2002
And the Sea Will Tell (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,755 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 — 15,295 ratings — published
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.48 — 36,513 ratings — published 2002
The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,808 ratings — published 1981
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,263 ratings — published 2019
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,694 ratings — published 2017
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 — 8,850 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 — 3,984 ratings — published 2016
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,891 ratings — published 2013
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.91 — 34,716 ratings — published 2012
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.32 — 13,624 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 — 9,513 ratings — published 1999
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,053 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 — 58,109 ratings — published 2017
L'Avversario (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 3.99 — 56,693 ratings — published 2000
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as truecrime)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,836 ratings — published 2014
“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
“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
