17 Best nonfiction books like Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan

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Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

By: Ellen McGarrahan

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A journalist-turned-private investigator returns to the case that has haunted her for decades--a de…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

By: Eli Sanders

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly i… read more

Similar categories in Eli Sanders's While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of One Deadly Night : A State Trooper, Triple Homicide, and a Search for Justice by John Glatt

2. One Deadly Night : A State Trooper, Triple Homicide, and a Search for Justice

By: John Glatt

4.35

Format: None pages,

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. 'Til Death Do Us Part

By: Amanda Quick , Jayne Ann Krentz

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Timesbestseller Garden of Liesreturns to Victorian London in an all-new … read more

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4. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

By: Brad Ricca

3.88

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the detective and lawyer who turned he… read more

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Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

5. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

6. Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A complex and timely mystery, Blood Betrayal proves once again that Ausma Zehanat Khan is a writer … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Seif privately suspected Julie would be hearing from the sheriff for letting not one but two interlopers into the inner sanctum without prior consent. Julie's policy seemed to guarantee admission as …"

-Ausma Zehanat Khan, Blood Betrayal (Blackwater Falls, #2)

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7. 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

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • true crime
  • adult
  • true story
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Kate Summerscale's The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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9. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

By: Cameron Russell

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Russell's How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

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

10. 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 Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

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

12. 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

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

13. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By: Casey Cep

3.77

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on ob… read more

Similar categories in Casey Cep's Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There’s no news in a newsroom"

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"Vengeance is as old as violence."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"History isn’t what happens, but what gets written down."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

"Monroeville was hard to get to and easy to get stuck in."

-Casey Cep, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

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14. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

Similar categories in David Gibbins's A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case by Caitlin Rother

15. Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case

By: Caitlin Rother

3.67

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Caitlin Rother explores the mysterious death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who w… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Rother's Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer by Liza Rodman

16. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer

By: Liza Rodman

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, whil… read more

Similar categories in Liza Rodman's The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer   Wright

17. Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

By: Jennifer Wright

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“This is the story of one of the boldest women in American history: a self-made millionaire, a cele… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Wright's Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1) by Samantha Jayne Allen

18. Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1)

By: Samantha Jayne Allen

3.36

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Mare of Easttown in this small-town mystery about an unlikely private inv… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Jayne Allen's Pay Dirt Road (Annie McIntyre, #1) book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude by Nicole Avant

19. Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude

By: Nicole Avant

3.61

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A spirit-lifting memoir on how to turn pain into purpose, how to live always in gratitude, and how … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens

20. A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

By: Peter Cozzens

4.09

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed historian Peter Cozzens, the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insat… read more

Similar categories in Peter Cozzens's A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan

21. Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

By: Ellen McGarrahan

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A journalist-turned-private investigator returns to the case that has haunted her for decades--a de… read more

Similar categories in Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice book and Ellen McGarrahan's Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • true story
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

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Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

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

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

Transform Your Habits

In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

Kim Cross

4.30

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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Jenni Nuttall

3.82

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

4.32

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A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

Emma Southon

4.23

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Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Katie Gee Salisbury

3.99

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