8 Top true crime books like The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man by Catherine Fegan

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The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man

By: Catherine Fegan

4.26

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children. I was los…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man by Catherine Fegan , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

By: Les Standiford , Joe Matthews

3.66

Format: 146 pages,

Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Miss… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

2. Almost the Perfect Murder: The Killing of Elaine O'Hara, the Extraordinary Garda Investigation and the Trial That Stunned the Nation: The Only Complete Inside Account

By: Paul Williams

3.88

Format: 588 pages,

For over a year everyone assumed missing Dublin woman Elaine O'Hara had ended her own life. But aft… read more

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3. Not My Father's Son

By: Alan Cumming

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Dark, painful memories can be put away to be forgotten. Until one day they all flood back in horrib… read more

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4. Little Lost Angel

By: None

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is the story of how four girls in Indiana went to a rock concert, drove around and then lured … read more

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5. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!: Just a Small-Town Girl Living in a Notions World

By: Emer McLysaght , None

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

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6. A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11)

By: Jane Casey

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Every mother's worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one … read more

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7. A Keeper

By: Graham Norton

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying good… read more

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"I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

"The dead don't vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

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8. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

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9. Rememberings

By: Sinéad O'Connor

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."

-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

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10. In Her Place

By: Edel Coffey

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An … read more

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11. The Trial

By: Jo Spain

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

2014, Dublin: at St Edmunds, an elite college on the outskirts of the city, twenty-year-old medical… read more

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12. Body of Truth

By: Marie Cassidy

3.91

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

IN THE HUNT FOR A KILLER THE SCARS OF DEATH DON'T LIE FROM IRELAND'S FORMER STATE PATHOLOGIST MA… read more

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13. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. My Husband's Killer

By: Laura Marshall

4.00

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . . We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coas… read more

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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling

By: Emer McLysaght

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled. But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-… read more

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17. Aisling and the City

By: Emer McLysaght

4.08

Format: 402 pages, None

Aisling is 31, and she’s still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly cl… read more

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18. Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

By: Séamas O'Reilly

4.13

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven children raised by a sin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Ann was as steady as rain and implacable as taxes. The kind of strong rooted Donegal woman you could imagine blithely tutting if her hair caught fire."

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

"It was this story, delivered in Robert's signature south Derry monotone, that had my dad in literal and figurative stitches in the amputation ward. Despite being a Catholic who loved and admired Pope…"

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

"It seems blasphemous that my mother's death even existed in the same reality as those moments that subsequently came to define my youth; taking the long way home from Nixon's Corner so I could listen…"

-Séamas O'Reilly, Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? A Memoir

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19. The Importance of Being Aisling: Country Roads, Take Her Home

By: Emer McLysaght

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Aisling is 29 and she’s still a complete Aisling.After a tough year, things between herself and Joh… read more

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20. Clash of the Clans: The rise of the Irish narcos and boxing’s dirty secret

By: Nicola Tallant

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

CLASH OF THE CLANS is a story that traces the emergence of the Irish mafia from the streets of Dubl… read more

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21. The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man

By: Catherine Fegan

4.26

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children. I was los… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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22. The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes

By: Pat Marry

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, includ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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23. Crowded House: The Definitive Story Behind the Gruesome Murder of Patricia O’Connor

By: Frank Greaney

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In June 2017, a woman out picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains stumbled upon something in a ditch th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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24. Dirty Little Secrets

By: Jo Spain

3.81

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Death stalked the Vale. In every corner, every whisper. They just didn't know it yet. Six neig… read more

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25. Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life story of Australia’s first MasterChef

By: Julie Goodwin

4.57

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef Australia. In m… read more

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26. Let This Be Our Secret

By: Deric Henderson

3.94

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1991. The location: a quiet, picturesque seaside town. The scene: two bodies in a car filled wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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27. Bessborough

By: Deirdre Finnerty

4.48

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For over seventy years, Bessborough House, a grand country mansion on the outskirts of Cork city, o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Flesh and Blood: Murder-Suicides that Haunt Ireland

By: Nicola Tallant

4.38

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In Flesh and Blood , Sunday World Investigations Editor, Nicola Tallant looks at the rising phenome… read more

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29. The Black Widow: The Catherine Nevin Story

By: Niamh O'Connor

3.67

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Number One Bestseller The incredible story of the murder which gripped the nation. When Tom Nevin w… read more

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  • true crime
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30. The Killing of Father Niall Molloy: Anatomy of an Injustice

By: Maresa Fagan

3.71

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

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Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

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