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True Crime Nominations for 2020 (updated 12/13/19)

Please list any True Crime selections you would like to read by replying to this discussion and it will be added to the list.

To those who are leading a True Crime Discussion: the books below have not been check for availability/paperback rule. Therefore some of the books may not be eligible yet (I'll check the books when you select them until I get the chance to check the entire list).

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- Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets by Gregg Olsen
- Above Suspicion by Joe Sharkey
- After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search by Sarah Perry
- All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
- Almost Midnight: An American Story of Murder and Redemption by Michael W. Cuneo
- American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century by Paula Uruburu
- American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
- American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin
- And Every Word Is True by Gary McAvoy
- And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer by Ann Rule
- And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi
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- The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower
- Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found by Gilbert King
- Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder by Jerry Bledsoe
- Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Marie Eatwell
- Blind Faith by Joe McGinniss
- Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins
- The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh
- Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty by Melissa del Bosque
- The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy by Masha Gessen
- Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love by Wendy Ruderman

- The Cases That Haunt Us by John Edward Douglas
- Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi
- Columbine by Dave Cullen
- The Crime of the Century by Dennis L. Breo

- Dark Secrets of the Black Museum: 1835-1985: More Dark Secrets From 150 Years of the Most Notorious Crimes in England. by Gordon Honeycombe
- The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town by Ron Franscell
- A Death In Canaan by Joan Barthel
- Death of Innocence: The True Story of an Unspeakable Teenage Crime by Peter Meyer
- The Demon Next Door by Bryan Burrough
- Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago by Harold Schechter
- Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
- Die Free: A True Story of Murder, Betrayal and Miscarried Justice by Peter Rooney
- Double Lives: True Tales of the Criminals [author:Andrew H. MalcolmNext Door|40617166] by Eric Brach
- Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder by Leah Carroll

- Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder by Zachary Lazar
-Evil at Lake Seminole: The Shocking True Story Surrounding the Disappearance of Mike Williams by Steven B. Epstein

- Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss
- Final Harvest : An American Tragedy by Andrew H. Malcolm
- The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold (subject to change currently eligible for April 2020)
- Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

- Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them by Girl A
- Gitchie Girl: The Survivor's Inside Story of the Mass Murders that Shocked the Heartland by Phil Hamman
- Give a Boy a Gun: A True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West by Jack Olsen
- God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi by John Safran
- The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder by Charles Graeber
- Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer - America's Deadliest Serial Murderer by Ann Rule
- Grindr Serial Killer: Stephen Port by Alan R. Warren

- H. H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
- Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon
- Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus

-If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children by Gregg Olsen
- If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule
- If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen
- The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

- James Fairweather: Britain's Youngest Serial Killer by C.L. Swinney
- Joe Cinque's Consolation, A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law by Helen Garner
- Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert by Jason Kersten
- Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders by Dick Lehr
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

- (eligible for a reread in June 2020) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's [author:Robert KolkerGreatest Outlaw|419083] by Mark Bowden
- THE KRAYS: Britain's Most Notorious Gangsters byRoger Harrington

- The Last Stone by Mark Bowden
- A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival by Judith Tebbutt
- Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by
- Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs by Amanda Lamb
- Lust Killer by Ann Rule

- The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James
- Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland by Patricia L. Bryan
- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth
- The Minds of Billy Milligan by Daniel Keyes
- Murder, Interrupted by James Patterson
- Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? by Ethan Brown
- Murder Never Dies: Crime and Corruption in the Friendly City by George T. Sidiropolis

- The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age by Wendy Gamber

- Obsessed by M. William Phelps
- The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
- Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder by Vincent Bugliosi

- Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi
- 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 by Richard Lloyd Parry
- Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia
- Pizza Bomber: The Untold Story of America's Most Shocking Bank Robbery by Jerry Clark
- Poisoned Blood by Philip E. Ginsburg
- Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
- Power To Hurt: Inside A Judge's Chambers: Sexual Assault, Corruption, And The Ultimate Reversal Of Justice For WomenDarcy O'Brien
- Prairie Murders: The True Story of Three Murders and the Loss of Innocence in a Small North Dakota Town by Robert Dodge
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
- Pure Evil: Inside the Minds and Crimes of Britain’s Worst Criminals by Geoffrey Wansell

- Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi
- The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
- Robert Black: The True Story of a Child Rapist and Serial Killer from the United Kingdom by C.L. Swinney

- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer by Brian Masters
- Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
- Sins of the Mother by Maria Eftimiades
- Slave by Jason Johnson
- Small Sacrifices: A True Story of Passion and Murder by Ann Rule
- The Sophie Lancaster Story by Catherine Smyth
- Stolen Innocence: The Jan Broberg Story by Mary Ann Broberg
- Stolen Lives: True Crime: Mom's Who Killed Their Kids: Maternal Filicide by Sylvia Perrini
- Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri Jentz

- Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery by Vincent Bugliosi
- To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder by Nancy Rommelmann
- The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
- Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy
- The Truth Be Damned by Janet Uhlar
- A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church by Gregg Olsen

- Ugly Child: My Own Terrifying True Story of Child Abuse and the Desperate Fight for Survival by Kate Skylark
- The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond by Maury Terry
- Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story by Stephen Bentley
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer
- Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor Jr.

- Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S. History by Maureen Orth

- The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule
- What Happened in Craig: Alaska's Worst Unsolved Mass Murder by Leland E Hale
- While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders
- Who Named the Knife: A Book of Murder and Memory by Linda Spalding
- The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case by James Neff

- Yorkshire Ripper - The Secret Murders: The True Story of How Peter Sutcliffe's Terrible Reign of Terror Claimed at Least Twenty-Two More Lives by Chris Clark

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Sunshine wrote: "If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen"

Thanks Sunshine, I've added it to our list.

I nominate -


Evil at Lake Seminole: The Shocking True Story Surrounding the Disappearance of Mike Williams by Steven Epstein

Jenny wrote: "I nominate -


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Thanks Jenny, I've added it to the list.