A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back
By: William D. LaRue
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
KATY DIED THREE DAYS AFTER THE BRUTAL ATTACK. JUSTICE ARRIVED THREE DECADES LATER. In the early mor…
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1. The Good, the Bad, and the Grace of God: What Honesty and Pain Taught Us About Faith, Family, and Forgiveness
By: Susy Flory , Jep Robertson , Jessica Robertson
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A Moving Story of Redemption and Second Chances Jep Robertson, the youngest son of Duck Commander P… read more
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2. True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
By: James Renner
3.66
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on pos… read more
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3. The Want-Ad Killer
By: Ann Rule
3.59
Format: 378 pages,
After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipula… read more
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4. Secrets in the Cellar
By: John Glatt
4.16
Format: 331 pages, Paperback
Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more
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5. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
By: Kate Summerscale
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
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6. You'll Never Find My Body
By: Don Lasseter , Ronald E. Bowers
3.33
Format: 140 pages,
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7. The Girl in the Leaves
By: Robert Scott , Sarah Maynard
3.00
Format: None pages, ebook
THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE MASS MURDERS EVER RECORDED. AND THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED WITH HER … read more
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9. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
By: Daleen Berry , Geoffrey C. Fuller
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon thei… read more
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10. Blood and Guts A History of Surgery by Hollingham, Richard
By: Richard Hollingham
3.91
Format: 318 pages,
Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making face transplants, limb transplants and a host … read more
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11. Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
By: John Bloom , Jim Atkinson
4.34
Format: 168 pages,
Edgar Award Finalist: The "sensational" true story of two desperate housewives and the killing that… read more
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12. Never Leave Me: A True Story of Marriage, Deception, and Brutal Murder
By: John Glatt
3.72
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
In a quiet community of million dollar homes and shiny SUVs, the Nyce family projected the very ima… read more
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13. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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14. 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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15. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal
By: Aphrodite Jones
4.32
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more
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16. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
By: M. William Phelps
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more
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17. 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
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18. 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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19. An Almost Perfect Murder
By: Gary C. King
3.59
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
A critical care nurse marries his patient’s widow only to later poison her in this true crime story… read more
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20. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case
By: Charles Bosworth Jr.
4.30
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more
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21. Eyes of a Monster
By: Ron Peterson Jr.
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her ki… read more
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22. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students
By: J. Reuben Appelman
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more
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23. Burned: A Story of a Murder and the Crime that Wasn't
By: Edward Humes
3.38
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
On an April night in 1989, three young children perished in a tragic Los Angeles house fire. Their … read more
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24. Last Days of the Concorde: The Crash of Flight 4590 and the End of Supersonic Passenger Travel (Air Disasters Book 3)
By: Samme Chittum
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the rac… read more
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25. The Teacher's Pet
By: Hedley Thomas
4.14
Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition
If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas take… read more
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26. Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
By: Jax Miller
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Hardcover
The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decade… read more
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"I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes."-Jax Miller, Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
27. A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back
By: William D. LaRue
4.25
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
KATY DIED THREE DAYS AFTER THE BRUTAL ATTACK. JUSTICE ARRIVED THREE DECADES LATER. In the early mor… read more
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28. Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind
By: David B. Nelson
3.83
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . … read more
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29. Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up
By: Jeff Coen
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"A real-life crime drama with vivid individuals and neighborhoods. A murder unsolved until now aft… read more
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30. Sole Survivor: The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer
By: Holly K. Dunn
4.27
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
A memoir of hope, healing, and survival, sure to resonate with fans of Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Lif… read more
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31. Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders
By: William C. Costopoulos
3.78
Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition
Joseph Wambaugh's Echoes in the Darkness and its subsequent TV dramatization have made household wo… read more
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