What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl
By: Katherine Dykstra
3.43
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and neve…
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1. Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders
By: Beverly Lowry
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of … read more
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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
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- audiobook
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
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4. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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5. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
By: Jillian Lauren
3.38
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more
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6. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
By: Mandy Matney
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more
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7. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
By: James Renner
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more
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- audiobook
8. Murder Beyond the Grave (ID True Crime, 3)
By: James Patterson
3.83
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true c… read more
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9. 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
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- audiobook
10. 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
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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
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12. 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
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"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
13. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
By: Barbara Weisberg
3.43
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more
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14. Evidence of Things Seen
By: Sarah Weinman
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more
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15. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
By: John Glatt
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more
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16. Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
By: Ron Franscell
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare.… read more
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17. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By: Sarah Weinman
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
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18. What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl
By: Katherine Dykstra
3.43
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and neve… read more
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- feminism
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- womens
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19. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice
By: Benjamin Gilmer
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more
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20. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer
By: Liza Rodman
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, whil… read more
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21. 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
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