11 Best true crime books like In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith

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In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

By: Jack Goldsmith

4.14

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e…

If you liked the true crime plot in In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Crime Beat

By: Michael Connelly

3.63

Format: 416 pages,

Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering homicide beat in Flori… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. Dallas, November 22, 1963

By: Robert A. Caro

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

An eBook short. This account of the Kennedy assassination ("the most riveting ever," says The NewYo… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World by Gordon Dillow, William J. Rehder

4. Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Bank Robbery Capital of the World

By: Gordon Dillow , William J. Rehder

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

FBI Special Agent William J. Rehder, the man CBS News once described as "America's secret weapon in… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

5. The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

By: Ethan Michaeli

4.12

Format: 192 pages, ebook

The story of the "Chicago Defender" is the story of race in the twentieth century. -Alex Kotlowitz,… read more

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6. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

By: Selwyn Raab

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York an… read more

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7. The Blood of Emmett Till

By: Timothy B. Tyson

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Timesbestseller r… read more

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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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9. Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

By: Marcia Muller

3.57

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

In this twisting mystery in a New York Times bestselling series, pranks escalate into a deadly sche… read more

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

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

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

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

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

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

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

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11. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball by Keith O'Brien

12. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles

13. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

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15. Blood of a Gladiator (Leonidas the Gladiator Mysteries, #1)

By: Ashley Gardner

4.33

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who gra… read more

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16. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

By: Daniel James Brown

4.49

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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19. Watergate: A New History

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.49

Format: 832 pages, Hardcover

From Garrett​ Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton

20. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

21. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Westport

By: James Comey

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

In this follow-up to Central Park West , former FBI director James Comey takes readers into the wor… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith

23. In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

By: Jack Goldsmith

4.14

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • labor
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief by Rena Pederson

24. The King of Diamonds: The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief

By: Rena Pederson

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of a brazen, uncatchable jewel thief who roamed the homes of Dallas high societ… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy by Dan Abrams

25. Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy

By: Dan Abrams

3.71

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt’s last stand—an epic courtroom battle against corru… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

26. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

27. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

28. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue by Dean Jobb

29. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

30. True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

By: Gretchen Whitmer

4.34

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From trailblazing Michigan governor and rising Democratic star Gretchen Whitmer comes an unconventi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

31. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

23 must-read audiobook books like In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith

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Michael Connelly

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4.37

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Marcia Muller

3.57

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4.24

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3.81

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4.11

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