Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
By: Paul Collins
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr…
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1. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
By: Stephen Puleo
4.01
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
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2. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir
By: William Friedkin
4.13
Format: 497 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited memoir from the Academy Award–winning director of such legendary films as The Fren… read more
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3. Enemies: A History of the FBI
By: Tim Weiner
3.93
Format: 537 pages, Hardcover
Enemies is the first definitive history of the FBI’s secret intelligence operations, from an author… read more
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"From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfa…"-Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI
4. All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
By: Michael Patrick MacDonald
4.08
Format: 263 pages, Paperback
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world"--the Irish-American Old Colony p… read more
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"I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston."-Michael Patrick MacDonald, All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
5. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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6. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
By: Kate Summerscale
4.67
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
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7. Polio: An American Story
By: David M. Oshinsky
3.50
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find … read more
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8. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (The Darling Dahlias #1)
By: Susan Wittig Albert
4.40
Format: None pages,
The good old ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their town beautiful. The Darling D… read more
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9. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
By: Helen Castor
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left… read more
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10. Undead Girl Gang
By: Lily Anderson
3.95
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Mila Flores and her best friend Riley have always been inseparable. There's not much excitement in … read more
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11. Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
By: None , None
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
A lively and provocative double biography of first cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Lo… read more
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12. Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
By: Kevin Cook
4.24
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop--a murder the New York Ti… read more
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13. Charlatans
By: Robin Cook
4.45
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
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15. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic
By: Emily Monosson
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more
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16. Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks
By: David Bushman
3.05
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliantly researched reinvestigation into the nearly forgotten century-old murder that inspired… read more
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17. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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18. 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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19. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
By: Susan Wels
3.33
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more
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20. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family
By: Susan Jonusas
3.45
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more
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21. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)
By: Tom Clavin
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the N… read more
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22. The River Man
By: R.B. Croft
3.19
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Clem knows every inch of Watersmeet like the back of his hand. After all, he’s controlled crime her… read more
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23. 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
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"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
24. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
By: Roseanne Montillo
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more
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25. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice
By: C. Alexander Hortis
3.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more
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26. When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times
By: Leah Sottile
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious d… read more
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27. Six Days in August: The Story of Stockholm Syndrome
By: David King
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked int… read more
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28. Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia
By: Gregory J. Wallance
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Ru… read more
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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
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30. Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
By: Stacy Horn
3.63
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-… read more
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31. Blood & Ivy: The 1849 Murder That Scandalized Harvard
By: Paul Collins
3.63
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr… read more
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