6 best-selling true crime books like The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia by Richard Hammer

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The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia

By: Richard Hammer

3.77

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Edgar The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia …

If you liked the true crime plot in The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia by Richard Hammer , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)

By: James B. Stockdale

4.30

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

When physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from mil… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"After ejection I had about thirty seconds to make my last statement in freedom before I landed in the main street of a little village right ahead. And so help me, I whispered to myself: "Five years d…"

-James B. Stockdale, Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus's Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior (Hoover Essays)

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2. Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)

By: Tony Hillerman

3.50

Format: 92 pages,

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutena… read more

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  • crime

3. When Maidens Mourn (Sebastian St. Cyr, #7)

By: C.S. Harris

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Regency England, August 1812. Sebastian's plans to escape the heat of London for a honeymoon are sh… read more

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4. Hot Blood: The Money, the Brach Heiress, the Horse Murders

By: Ken Englade

3.81

Format: 336 pages,

HELEN BRANCH LEFT BEHIND A HUGE FORTUNE--AND A MYSTERY THAT WOULD HAUNT THE NATION FOR YEARS TO COM… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

5. Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

By: Jerry Bledsoe

3.37

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive… read more

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6. Dancing with Death: The True Story of a Glamorous Showgirl, her Wealthy Husband, and a Horrifying Murder

By: Shanna Hogan

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Former stripper turned suburban housewife Marjorie Orbin filed a missing pe… read more

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7. How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends

By: Mark Derr

4.18

Format: 368 pages,

That the dog evolved from the wolf is an accepted fact of evolution and history, but the question o… read more

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8. 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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9. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

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  • crime
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10. Blood's Echo (Veranda Cruz #1)

By: Isabella Maldonado

4.30

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Phoenix detective Veranda Cruz is dead set on taking down the Villalobos crime family, but the ruth… read more

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  • crime
Cover of A Clean Kill (Garrett Mann, #1) by Steven Konkoly

11. A Clean Kill (Garrett Mann, #1)

By: Steven Konkoly

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

An FBI agent hunting a serial killer has to up his game when a trail of murders is not what it seem… read more

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  • crime
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12. Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed

By: Jim Popkin

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 24 minutes The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in U… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. Her Little Flowers

By: Shannon Morgan

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family’s ancestral home, a rambling Eliz… read more

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14. The Noise of Zulu Battle (The Soldier's Son Book 1)

By: Malcolm Archibald

4.41

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

South Africa, 1877. Andrew Baird is a man trying to escape his past. The son of the famous “Fightin… read more

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15. Burning Ridge (Timber Creek K-9 Mystery, #4)

By: Margaret Mizushima

4.25

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Featuring Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo, Burning Ridge by critically acclaimed author Margar… read more

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  • crime
Cover of The North Country Murder of Irene Izak: Stained by Her Blood (True Crime) by Dave Shampine

16. The North Country Murder of Irene Izak: Stained by Her Blood (True Crime)

By: Dave Shampine

3.73

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

A road trip becomes a dead end for a schoolteacher in this haunting cold case of murder that became… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia

By: Richard Hammer

3.77

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Edgar The riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia … read more

Similar categories in Richard Hammer's The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia book and Richard Hammer's The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia

  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. The Battle for Germany: September 1944–May 1945 (The Final Months of War)

By: H. Essame

4.48

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

‘a first-rate and highly readable account of the campaign that ended with the surrender of Germany.… read more

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19. The Fortunate Dead (Thomas Berrington #6)

By: David Penny

4.52

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

As one man’s greed kills an army prepares to destroy When a body goes missing from the Malaka Infir… read more

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20. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. The Tangled Web: The Life and Death of Richard Cain-Chicago Cop and Hitman

By: Michael J. Cain

3.50

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The Tangled Web tells the dramatic story of Detective Richard Cain, the man the FBI described as “p… read more

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  • true crime

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3.64

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