10 best-selling true crime books like The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg

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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Family that Couldn't Sleep

By: D.T. Max

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes t… read more

Similar categories in D.T. Max's The Family that Couldn't Sleep book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion] seems the strangest thing in all biology, and, until someone in some la…"

-D.T. Max, The Family that Couldn't Sleep

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2. 55 Graves

By: Robert P. Maroney

3.91

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

A family has been brutally murdered leaving only their young daughter alive. Two days later another… read more

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3. The Birds of Opulence

By: Crystal Wilkinson

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberriesand Water Streetco… read more

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4. Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

By: Les Standiford , Joe Matthews

3.66

Format: 146 pages,

Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Miss… read more

Similar categories in Les Standiford's Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Quiet Dell

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From one of America's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers, a chilling, spectacularly ri… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Quiet Dell book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • mystery
  • crime
  • true crime

6. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

By: Monica Hesse

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more

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7. 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 Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • mystery thriller
  • history
  • true crime
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • lgbt
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9. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson

3.40

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August o… read more

Similar categories in Cara Robertson's The Trial of Lizzie Borden book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Brown's Rednecks book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • mystery thriller
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • lgbt
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. F*ckface: and Other Stories

By: Leah Hampton

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

F*ckface is a brassy, bighearted debut collection of twelve short stories about rurality, corpses, … read more

Similar categories in Leah Hampton's F*ckface: and Other Stories book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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16. Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir

By: Iliana Regan

3.54

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, … read more

Similar categories in Iliana Regan's Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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17. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. The WVU Coed Murders: Who Killed Mared and Karen? (True Crime)

By: Geoffrey C. Fuller

3.86

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prom… read more

Similar categories in Geoffrey C. Fuller's The WVU Coed Murders: Who Killed Mared and Karen? (True Crime) book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Longest Summer

By: Jon Shannon

3.80

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Longest Summer" takes readers on an emotional and suspenseful journey alongside Max, a man who… read more

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20. This Is All I Got

By: Lauren Sandler

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of a year in the life of a young, homeless single mother, her quest to find stab… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Sandler's This Is All I Got book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

21. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

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3.93

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Jayne Anne Phillips

3.57

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

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Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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Anna Akbari

3.66

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