5 must-read biography books like Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan

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Murder: The Biography

By: Kate Morgan

4.00

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating …

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1. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By: Vivien Spitz

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness … read more

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2. Monsters

By: Emerald Fennell

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found  A blackly comic tale about two children you would… read more

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3. A Curious History of Sex

By: Kate Lister

4.17

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throug… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

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4. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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5. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

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6. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

By: Sue Black

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"

-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

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8. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

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  • mystery
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9. When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist’s Search for the Truth

By: Angela Gallop

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific evidence. With ever-more sophisti… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain

By: Blessin Adams

3.86

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most fou… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Moonstone

By: Laura Purcell

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling go… read more

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  • historical
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12. Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous Criminals

By: Jonathan Levi

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has co… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence

By: William Clegg

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How do you chat to someone accused of a savage murder? Or prepare a court case? Or sway a jury? … read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
  • audiobook
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16. Murder: The Biography

By: Kate Morgan

4.00

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating … read more

Similar categories in Kate Morgan's Murder: The Biography book and Kate Morgan's Murder: The Biography

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

By: Peter Ross

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Exposure to a particle of darkness means one does not sicken with it."

-Peter Ross, A Tomb With a View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards

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18. Helle & Death (Helle & Death, #1)

By: Oskar Jensen

3.51

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

A snowstorm. A country house. Old friends reunited. It's going to be murder... Torben Helle - ar… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • adult
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19. The Real-Life Murder Clubs: Citizens Solving True Crimes

By: Nicola Stow

3.70

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The story behind real-life clubs of ordinary citizens who come together to solve true crime mysteri… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

9 Top true crime books like Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan

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Neil Bradbury

4.12

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Ray Fysh

4.34

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Sue Black

4.31

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Angela Gallop

3.58

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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Rebecca Netley

4.00

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Stacey Halls

3.94

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Louise Welsh

3.71

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