16 must-read crime books like We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

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We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st…

If you liked the crime plot in We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more

Similar categories in Richard Lloyd Parry's Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

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2. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

By: Sally Denton

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more

Similar categories in Sally Denton's The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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5. The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

4.47

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he’s sen… read more

Similar categories in Tananarive Due's The Reformatory book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • mystery
  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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7. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stashower's American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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10. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • mystery
  • crime
  • anthropology
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12. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

13. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

Similar categories in Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

Similar categories in Greg Melville's Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

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15. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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16. The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America

By: Anita Hannig

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of ou… read more

Similar categories in Anita Hannig's The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken

17. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

By: Patti McCracken

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more

Similar categories in Patti McCracken's The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry

18. Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

By: Beverly Lowry

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author… read more

Similar categories in Beverly Lowry's Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

19. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Kleiner Rubin's A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan Ashline

20. Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult

By: Susan Ashline

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-… read more

Similar categories in Susan Ashline's Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past

By: Elizabeth A. Murray

3.58

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida Schoo… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth A. Murray's The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past book and Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

10 Top adult books like We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

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Kathryn Miles

3.94

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The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

4.47

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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All the Living and the Dead

Hayley Campbell

4.25

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16 Best audiobook books like The Dozier School for Boys: Forensics, Survivors, and a Painful Past by Elizabeth A. Murray

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Children of the Night (Seasons of Horror #2)

Dan Simmons

3.72

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Tananarive Due

4.47

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Abuela, Don't Forget Me

Rex Ogle

4.50

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Kent State

Deborah Wiles

3.96

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