20 must-read history books like Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni…

If you liked the history plot in Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King , here is a list of 20 books like this:

Cover of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

1. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

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

2. 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 Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn

3. 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

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen  Hale

4. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

5. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

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

6. 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

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

7. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schulman's Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

8. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

9. 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

Similar categories in Joe Pompeo's Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

10. All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of Edward Rulloff--a serial murderer who was called "too intell… read more

Similar categories in Kate Winkler Dawson's All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

11. 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

Similar categories in Susan Wels's An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

12. 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

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

13. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

Similar categories in Mark Dawidziak's A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Cover of I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter

14. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

By: Barbara Rae-Venter

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Rae-Venter's I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"

-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

15. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Cover of The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

16. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

Similar categories in Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger

17. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

Similar categories in Jeanine Basinger's Hollywood: The Oral History book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

18. Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

By: Casey Sherman

3.50

Format: 509 pages, ebook

Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa―the serial killer of Cape Cod 1969: The hippie scene… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

19. 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

Similar categories in Lisa Belkin's Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

20. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more

Similar categories in Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich

21. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

Similar categories in Michael Wolraich's The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age book and Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

9 Top adult books like Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

Transform Your Habits

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

Michael Schulman

4.09

Transform Your Habits

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

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5 Best adult books like The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

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

Laurah Norton

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

Transform Your Habits

To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

John Coston

3.93

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