23 must-read history books like Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the …

If you liked the history plot in Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin , here is a list of 23 books like this:

1. Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder

By: Diane Fanning

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was planned to look like a suicide. But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind... … read more

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Cover of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

2. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • true story
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

3. 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

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach

4. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Leach's The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

5. 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

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • true crime
  • true story
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

6. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Cover of Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence by James Renner

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

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • true crime
  • true story
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

8. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

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

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

10. 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 Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

11. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

12. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

13. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer by Holly Marie

14. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

Similar categories in Holly Marie's Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

15. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benjamin  Herold

16. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

17. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

18. 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

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • 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

Cover of I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter

19. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

By: Barbara Rae-Venter

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Rae-Venter's I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"

-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Cover of In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked by Jonna Méndez

20. In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

By: Jonna Méndez

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling co-author of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of bein… read more

Similar categories in Jonna Méndez's In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

21. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

22. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed

23. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance

By: Azam Ahmed

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more

Similar categories in Azam Ahmed's Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price

24. Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

By: Amy Price

3.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a… read more

Similar categories in Amy Price's Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI by Jana Monroe

25. Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

By: Jana Monroe

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The devil, or whatever force was behind that disembodied knife in her mind, has never made anyone do anything. The devil just applauds when it happens."

-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

"Our answers were rarely found in confessional sessions in a jailhouse interrogation room despite how hard serial killers like Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper tried to play their interviewers. Our answers…"

-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Cover of The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth  Flock

26. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

By: Elizabeth Flock

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Flock's The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no …"

-Elizabeth Flock, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

27. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

Similar categories in Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex  Mar

28. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

29. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • historical
  • true story
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson

30. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

By: Scott C. Johnson

3.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more

Similar categories in Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius book and Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

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

31. 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 Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

30 must-read audiobook books like Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

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Jillian Lauren

3.38

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The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

Samantha Leach

3.22

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Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

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We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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