15 must-read history books like Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen

Cover of Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen

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…

If you liked the history plot in Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh

1. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

4.07

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside capture… read more

Similar categories in Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

2. 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

Similar categories in Ann Rule's The Want-Ad Killer book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

By: Kate Summerscale

4.67

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

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Cover of Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin

4. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

Similar categories in Cory Franklin's Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

5. 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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Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

6. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

7. 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

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

8. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

Similar categories in Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

9. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stashower's American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

10. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole

11. We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

By: Fintan O'Toole

4.34

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, o… read more

Similar categories in Fintan O'Toole's We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"They opened a place in Irishness for the diasporas that were, in many ways, the truest products of its history. It brought home the reality that had been obscured in the idea of emigration as tragedy…"

-Fintan O'Toole, We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

12. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

13. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark    Harmon

14. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

Similar categories in Mark Harmon's Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb

15. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

Similar categories in Dean Jobb's The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

16. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

Similar categories in John O’Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy

17. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

Similar categories in Liza Mundy's The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 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

18. 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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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman

19. All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

By: Darcy Lockman

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist."

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

"Men are not socialized to feel guilty for having freedom or for not being there for other people."

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

"I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, o…"

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

"Joan Williams at the Center for WorkLife Law said "My strongest advice to young women: Don't just try to find a man who's supportive of women. That's a threshold. But consider, what is his attitude t…"

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

Cover of Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind by David B.  Nelson

20. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen

21. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up book and Jeff Coen's Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

9 Top adult books like Murder in Canaryville: The True Story Behind a Cold Case and a Chicago Cover-Up by Jeff Coen

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The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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11 best-selling adult books like The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

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Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

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