Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology
By: Max Allan Collins
3.44
Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
By: Tori Telfer
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack th… read more
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"They caused the greatest disappointment,"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Distanciar-se do crime é natural, mas distancie-se demais e o crime se tornará ilusão."-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"Why did that one friend scoot her chair away from me when I told her I “empathized but didn’t sympathize"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
"One otherwise-great book on the subject includes a line implying that the “cute girl behind the deli counter slicing our bread"-Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
2. The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville
By: Shelby Foote
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Shelby Foote begins a tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our histor… read more
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- history
3. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
By: Peter Vronsky
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
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4. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
By: David M. Kennedy
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depressi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
By: Lucy Worsley
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And… read more
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6. In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders
By: James Jessen Badal
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
On September 5, 1934, while walking along Lake Erie beach near his Cleveland home, Frank LaGassie m… read more
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7. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
By: Brad Ricca
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned he… read more
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8. To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia
By: Rick Porrello
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
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9. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
By: David King
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Death in the City of Lightis the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his o… read more
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10. Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
By: Jeff Ashton
3.83
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Filled with explosive new information, this is the definitive inside story of the case that captiva… read more
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11. 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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- true crime
- adult
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- crime
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12. The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
By: Carla Valentine
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Discover the science of forensics through Agatha Christie's novels Agatha Christie is the bestse… read more
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13. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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14. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
By: Jeff Guinn
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more
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15. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice
By: Tom Clavin
3.63
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more
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16. The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
By: Karen Abbott
3.69
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation. In the e… read more
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- biography
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17. The Trial of Lizzie Borden
By: Cara Robertson
3.40
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August o… read more
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18. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
3.76
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
When Lissa Yellow Bird was released from prison in 2009, she found her home, the Fort Berthold Indi… read more
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"Percy and Lissa shared a father, but as far as Lissa was concerned, calling him her “half brother"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"Her precociousness hardened into defiance, and her defiance broke into a reckless rage that scared even her own mother."-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"The casino was at the center of a constellation of transactions. I saw fishermen come to fish the lake; a woman looking for a job; elders cracking crab legs at the casino buffet—one of two restaurant…"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
"The tribe was unprepared for the boom, he believed. After centuries of colonization—of federal entities weakening and displacing tribal institutions—it did not have the resources, let alone the exper…"-Sierra Crane Murdoch, Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
19. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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20. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
By: Peter Vronsky
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers fro… read more
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21. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
22. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By: Sarah Weinman
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more
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23. Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency
By: Dan Abrams
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a strange case in which he had a deep person… read more
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24. Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
By: Daniel Stone
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the national bestselling author of The Food Explorer, a fascinating and rollicking plunge into… read more
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"History, after all, isn't told by the dead."-Daniel Stone, Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic
25. The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of Obsession
By: Kate Summerscale
3.62
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, … read more
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26. Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
By: Stephan Talty
3.95
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of governmen… read more
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27. 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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28. 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
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29. Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby
By: Dan Abrams
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling authors Dan Abrams and David Fisher bring to … read more
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30. Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology
By: Max Allan Collins
3.44
Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition
"The thrilling history of the torso murderer. The tale of the ‘Untouchable’ who got Al Capone but f… read more
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31. Through the Midnight Door
By: Katrina Monroe
3.61
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
As emotional as it is haunting, Through the Midnight Door explores the sometimes-fragile bonds of s… read more
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