19 must-read true crime books like Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age by James Stewart

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Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age

By: James Stewart

3.90

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, …

If you liked the true crime plot in Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age by James Stewart , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Wasted

By: Suzy Spencer

3.63

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

A drug-fueled lesbian love triangle leads to murder in this New York Times –bestselling true crime—… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child

4.21

Format: 571 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to… read more

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  • audiobook
"Chauncy made a huge effort to control himself. “I had lunch at Maisie’s Diner."

-Douglas Preston, Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)

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3. Practice to Deceive

By: Ann Rule

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Timesbestselling author and Queen of True Crime Ann Rule delivers another gripping true… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

4. Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Keith McCloskey

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Paperback

In January 1959, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia.… read more

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5. Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder

By: Piu Marie Eatwell

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Los Angeles, 1947. A housewife out for a walk with her baby notices a cloud of black flies buzzing … read more

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6. People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges

By: Jen Mann

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

A debut collection of witty, biting essays laced with a surprising warmth, from Jen Mann, the write… read more

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7. Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

By: Robert D. Hare

3.62

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Most people are both repelled and intrigued by the images of cold-blooded, conscienceless murderers… read more

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8. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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11. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

By: Kate Summerscale

3.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, an ordinary young housewife has become the eye in a storm… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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13. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.08

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

By: Reese Witherspoon

3.61

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Academy award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"You can be nervous as all get out. Just drink a beer and do it anyway."

-Reese Witherspoon, Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

"Life isn't about perfection. There is no rule book. Life has many different chapters, and every chapter deserves celebrating."

-Reese Witherspoon, Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

"Now, this is my little public service announcement: If you get invited to something, it's incumbent upon you to RSVP as soon as possible. A quick “no"

-Reese Witherspoon, Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

"One historical note that I just love: When the suffragettes were marching, at one point they started wearing red lipstick so they would all be wearing the same bold color and stand in solidarity with…"

-Reese Witherspoon, Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

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16. The Pale-Faced Lie

By: David Crow

4.28

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A violent ex-con forces his son to commit crimes in this unforgettable memoir about family and surv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"Her definition of love was obligation and guilt."

-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

"No tie is as strong as family, making it the hardest one to break."

-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

"For the first time, I saw my behavior from someone else’s point of view."

-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Believe in yourself. Never quit."

-David Crow, The Pale-Faced Lie

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17. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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18. Eyes of a Monster

By: Ron Peterson Jr.

4.35

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia apartment in 1981. Her ki… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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19. 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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true 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

20. 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

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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21. Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany

By: James Wyllie

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"The thought makes my teeth gnash and my lip snarl and my jaw fill with a scream. A scream that always has the same chorus. What they took away, seemingly so easily, was a person. "This was a person!"…"

-Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

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23. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The 'Peyton Place' Murder: The True Crime Story Behind The Novel That Shocked The Nation by Renee Mallett

24. The 'Peyton Place' Murder: The True Crime Story Behind The Novel That Shocked The Nation

By: Renee Mallett

3.61

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

Grace Metalious, born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, came from humble beginnings. A forme… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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25. The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland

By: John Railey

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl … read more

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

26. 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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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings (True Crime) by Cory Frye

27. Murder in Linn County, Oregon: The True Story of the Legendary Plainview Killings (True Crime)

By: Cory Frye

3.19

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime account of a Prohibition liquor raid gone wrong illuminates “a dark and violent str… read more

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  • true crime
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28. Mystery at the Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age

By: James Stewart

3.90

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in Jazz Age San Diego against the backdrop of yellow journalism, notorious Hollywood scandals, … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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29. 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
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm: The Shocking 1900 Case that Gripped Boston's North Shore (True Crime) by Douglas L. Heath

30. Murder at Breakheart Hill Farm: The Shocking 1900 Case that Gripped Boston's North Shore (True Crime)

By: Douglas L. Heath

3.76

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

On a dark, rainy night in October 1900, George E. Bailey, caretaker of Breakheart Hill farm, disapp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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31. The Butcher Game (Dr. Wren Muller, #2)

By: Alaina Urquhart

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author and co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid c… read more

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  • audiobook

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4.41

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