Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
By: Sarah Weinman
3.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and…
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1. Bitter Harvest
By: Ann Rule
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the night of October 23/24, 1995 in Prairie Village, Kansas, a fierce, wind-driven fire devastat… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
2. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
By: Sarah Perry
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning." --Entertainment Weekly |"Raw and perfect." --Laura Miller, Slate "Heartbreaking yet hop… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- true crime
- audiobook
3. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
By: Jesse Eisinger
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, "a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, dishearteni… read more
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4. The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
By: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help… read more
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5. Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.00
Format: 131 pages,
How does our government eavesdrop? Whom do they eavesdrop on? And is the interception of communicat… read more
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6. Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
By: Jeff Ashton
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Filled with explosive new information, this is the definitive inside story of the case that captiva… read more
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7. 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
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- 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
8. 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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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
9. 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
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
10. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi
By: Susan Hendricks
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
11. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- crime
- audiobook
12. 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
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
13. 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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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
14. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
15. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
By: Peter Vronsky
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers fro… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
16. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
By: Rick Emerson
3.96
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more
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- history
- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
17. 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
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- 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
18. Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
By: Max Cutler
3.56
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on insi… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
19. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
By: Sarah Weinman
3.59
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
20. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
By: Rachel Monroe
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- essays
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
21. Murder, Madness and Mayhem: Twenty-Five Tales of True Crime and Dark History
By: Mike Browne
3.75
Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition
Mike Browne, host of the popular Canadian podcast Dark Poutine, chronicles some of his all-time fav… read more
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- true crime
- adult
- nonfiction
- mystery
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- audiobook
