23 must-read nonfiction books like The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders by Peter Elkind

Cover of The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders by Peter Elkind

The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders

By: Peter Elkind

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Though doctors struggle to save them, babies are dying in the pediatric ward of a Texas hospital. A…

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1. Deadly Pretender

By: Karen Kingsbury

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An account of the crimes of David Miller describes how, posing as, variously, a CIA agent, an attor… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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2. Call Me Tuesday

By: Leigh Byrne

4.25

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

At eight-years-old, Tuesday Storm's childhood is forever lost when tragedy sends her family spirali… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

By: Michael Bilton

3.68

Format: 346 pages,

For over 20 years, the dark secrets of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history have remaine… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

4. Bitter Remains: A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price

By: Diane Fanning

4.08

Format: 234 pages,

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. 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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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

6. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders

By: Anthony Flacco , Jerry Clark , Michael Stone

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least 20 murders on a chicken ranch outsid… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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7. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators by Steve    Jackson

8. No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators

By: Steve Jackson

3.90

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers by Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo

9. The Big Book of Serial Killers: 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers

By: Jack Rosewood , Rebecca Lo

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

10. Fire Lover: A True Story

By: Joseph Wambaugh

4.37

Format: None pages,

From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as The Onion Field … read more

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11. 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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12. Monster

By: Steve Jackson

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

On February 13, 1982, 21-year-old Mary Brown's battered, bloodied body was treated by emergency roo… read more

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13. Uncommon Youth: The Gilded Family, Go-Go Life, and Gut-wrenching Kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III

By: None

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

The glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made hea… read more

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14. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

By: Gregg Olsen

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more

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15. If Loving You Is Wrong: The Shocking True Story of Mary Kay Letourneau

By: Gregg Olsen

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Teacher's Pet Within hours of giving birth to her sixth child, Mary Kay Letourneau had her baby dau… read more

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16. Call Me Cockroach

By: Leigh Byrne

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Kindle Edition

Our prisons, mental hospitals and streets are filled with tragic stories like Tuesday Storm's. Her … read more

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17. Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

By: Ken Croke

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent K… read more

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

18. 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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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

19. 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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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Wife: The Shocking Betrayal and Brutal Murder of a Godly Woman in Texas by Clint Richmond

20. The Good Wife: The Shocking Betrayal and Brutal Murder of a Godly Woman in Texas

By: Clint Richmond

3.95

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Roger and Penny Scaggs seemed a poster couple for family values. Evangelical Christians living in b… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

21. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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

22. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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23. Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

3.57

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.… read more

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

24. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

25. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Beast: A Chilling True Story of a Psychopathic Child Killer (True Crime) by Ryan  Green

26. The Beast: A Chilling True Story of a Psychopathic Child Killer (True Crime)

By: Ryan Green

4.08

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1981, just days after his release from jail, Clifford Olson Junior unleashed hell on Britis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond Obsession: The Shocking True Story of a Teenage Love Affair Turned Deadly by Richard Hammer

27. Beyond Obsession: The Shocking True Story of a Teenage Love Affair Turned Deadly

By: Richard Hammer

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The chilling true story of a beautiful violin prodigy, her devoted boyfriend, and the devastating f… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders by Peter Elkind

28. The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders

By: Peter Elkind

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Though doctors struggle to save them, babies are dying in the pediatric ward of a Texas hospital. A… read more

Similar categories in Peter Elkind's The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders book and Peter Elkind's The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • nursing
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne

29. The Pretty Girl Killer

By: Andrew Byrne

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

This is the story of Christopher Wilder: the surf-loving son of a decorated naval war hero born in … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales by Mitzi Szereto

30. Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales

By: Mitzi Szereto

3.38

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From historical accounts to modern cases, explore the captivating psychology behind these killer wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Child Killer: The True Story of The Atlanta Child Murders (True Crime) by Jack Rosewood

31. Child Killer: The True Story of The Atlanta Child Murders (True Crime)

By: Jack Rosewood

3.40

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

From the summer of 1979 through the spring of 1981, Atlanta, Georgia was held under siege by a seri… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

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Karen Kingsbury

4.14

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Call Me Tuesday

Leigh Byrne

4.25

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Wicked Beyond Belief: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper

Michael Bilton

3.68

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Mackenzie Phillips

3.82

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Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

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Ann Rule

4.11

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Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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