13 Top adult books like Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't by Edward Humes

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Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

By: Edward Humes

3.38

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

On an April night in 1989, three young children perished in a tragic Los Angeles house fire. Their …

If you liked the adult plot in Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't by Edward Humes , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

By: Mara Leveritt

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when D… read more

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2. In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth

By: Blair Brown , Ann Rule

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Audio CD

Ann Rule has followed a lovely young woman who had realized her childhood dream of being a police o… read more

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3. The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

By: John Glatt

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and … read more

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Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

4. 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 Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

5. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Cover of Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

6. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

Similar categories in Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

7. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Renner's Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

8. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more

Similar categories in Charles Bosworth Jr.'s Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

9. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

10. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’ by Nic  Edwards

11. The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’

By: Nic Edwards

3.75

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

On February 13, 2017 , two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went fo… read more

Similar categories in Nic Edwards's The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’ book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt

12. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

13. 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 Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Killer's Shadow:  The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas

14. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

By: John E. Douglas

3.79

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • american
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer

Cover of The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

15. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

By: Sarah Weinman

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Audiobook

7 Hours and 26 Minutes Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't by Edward Humes

16. Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

By: Edward Humes

3.38

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

On an April night in 1989, three young children perished in a tragic Los Angeles house fire. Their … read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • audiobook
  • american
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt

17. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

By: John Glatt

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime by Debora Harding

18. Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

By: Debora Harding

3.93

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-poin… read more

Similar categories in Debora Harding's Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere by Mikita Brottman

19. An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere

By: Mikita Brottman

3.26

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere--a once… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"To be invisible is to be free."

-Mikita Brottman, An Unexplained Death: The True Story of a Body at the Belvedere

Cover of Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman

20. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers … read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America by Shad White

21. Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America

By: Shad White

4.10

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

How America’s youngest state auditor uncovered the largest public corruption scandal in the history… read more

Similar categories in Shad White's Mississippi Swindle: Brett Favre and the Welfare Scandal that Shocked America book and Edward Humes's Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

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Maureen Callahan

4.09

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green

3.84

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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

Rebecca Renner

3.81

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21 must-read audiobook books like Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

4.30

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