17 must-read true crime books like The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case by James Neff

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The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case

By: James Neff

3.89

Format: 653 pages, Kindle Edition

This Edgar Award finalist—one of Ann Rule’s top five true-crime picks—is a “gripping” definitive ac…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case by James Neff , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling

By: David Canter

3.97

Format: 0 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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2. The Boston Strangler

By: Gerold Frank

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

A reprint of a hardcover edition. The most bizarre series of murders since Jack the Ripper triggere… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. Casino

By: Nicholas Pileggi

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From the author of the best-selling Mafia expose, Wiseguy, comes this inside story of the billion-d… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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4. Terrified

By: Kevin O'Brien

4.07

Format: 550 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Truth Megan Keeler died years ago—or so everyone believes. In fact, she disappeared to escape f… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences by Catherine Pelonero

5. Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences

By: Catherine Pelonero

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller! Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule

4.11

Format: 98 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Remember When (In Death, #17.5) by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

7. Remember When (In Death, #17.5)

By: Nora Roberts , J.D. Robb

3.81

Format: 336 pages,

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  • mystery
  • crime

8. Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

By: Mara Leveritt

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when D… read more

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9. Outer Banks

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

They came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus is the '60s: Elegant Kate, walking a ti… read more

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10. The Summons

By: John Grisham

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and … read more

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11. Unspeakable

By: Kevin O'Brien

4.07

Format: 544 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Unthinkable Crimes A family of four murdered in their hotel room. A single mother and her boyfri… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime

12. Innocent Blood: A true story of obsession and serial murder

By: Terry Ganey

4.00

Format: None pages,

Like a real-life Hannibal Lecter--the psychopathic murderer from Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lam… read more

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13. Thunderstruck

By: Erik Larson

3.77

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven stories of two men whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal cases o… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime

14. On the Farm

By: Stevie Cameron

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which inc… read more

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15. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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Cover of Toxic Love: The Shocking True Story of the First Murder by Cancer by Tomás Guillén

16. Toxic Love: The Shocking True Story of the First Murder by Cancer

By: Tomás Guillén

3.91

Format: 362 pages, ebook

The chilling true story of romantic obsession and murder by cancer from the New York Times–bestsell… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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17. The Murder of Kelsey Berreth: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.79

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

A successful young mother, Kelsey Berreth, vanishes on Thanksgiving Day 2018. The FBI is afraid the… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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19. Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

By: Carol Leonnig

4.24

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassina… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder by Ken Englade

20. Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

By: Ken Englade

3.90

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Mur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

21. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

22. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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23. 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

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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24. Till Murder Do Us Part (ID True Crime, 6)

By: James Patterson

3.90

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

From the world's #1 bestselling author comes a collection of Discovery ID true crime stories where … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

25. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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26. The Murder of Katherine Brown: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.44

Format: 69 pages, Kindle Edition

Step into the heart-pounding world of The Murder of Katherine A Shocking True Crime Story, where f… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial. by Ron Peterson Jr.

27. Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial.

By: Ron Peterson Jr.

4.30

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Under The Trestle is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A Trial of Innocents (Innocents #1) by Michael Swiger

28. A Trial of Innocents (Innocents #1)

By: Michael Swiger

4.40

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A special needs man is caught savagely beating a pregnant woman, leaving her in a coma, her unborn … read more

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29. Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

By: Michael D. Leinbach

4.23

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

Mike Leinbach was the launch director of the space shuttle program when Columbia disintegrated on r… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case by James Neff

30. The Wrong Man: The Final Verdict on the Dr. Sam Sheppard Murder Case

By: James Neff

3.89

Format: 653 pages, Kindle Edition

This Edgar Award finalist—one of Ann Rule’s top five true-crime picks—is a “gripping” definitive ac… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

31. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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3.97

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3.89

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4.09

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Jillian Lauren

3.38

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Gregg Olsen

3.49

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Susan Hendricks

3.62

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