12 Best crime books like Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror by Hazel Thornton

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Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

By: Hazel Thornton

4.01

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

More than two decades after serving as a juror on the high-profile seven-month murder trial People …

If you liked the crime plot in Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror by Hazel Thornton , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice by Sharon Rocha

1. For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice

By: Sharon Rocha

4.29

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Rocha's For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

By: James Renner

3.66

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

When an eleven-year-old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on pos… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

By: Naya Rivera

3.98

Format: 480 pages,

Funny and deeply personal, Sorry Not SorryrecountsGleestar Naya Rivera's successes and missteps, ur… read more

Similar categories in Naya Rivera's Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • nonfiction
Cover of If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer by Dominick Dunne, O.J. Simpson, The Goldman Family, Pablo F. Fenjves

4. If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

By: Dominick Dunne , O.J. Simpson , The Goldman Family , Pablo F. Fenjves

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, Cali… read more

Similar categories in Dominick Dunne's If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"Jesus Christ, O.J.—what have you done?"

-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

"You don`t get mood swings from eating cornflakes"

-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

"Still, I've heard it said that all stories are basically love stories, and my story is no exception. This is a love story, too. And, like a lot of love stories, it doesn't have a happy ending."

-Dominick Dunne, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

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5. The Amityville Horror

By: Jay Anson

3.83

Format: 315 pages, Mass Market Paperback

28 Days of Terror in a House Possessed by Evil Spirits In December 1975, the Lutz family moved i… read more

Similar categories in Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • true crime
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6. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Callahan's American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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7. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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8. Sandy Hook

By: Elizabeth Williamson

4.29

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Williamson's Sandy Hook book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2)

By: Lyla Sage

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway. … read more

Similar categories in Lyla Sage's Swift and Saddled (Rebel Blue Ranch, #2) book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

Cover of The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation by Robert        Rand

10. The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation

By: Robert Rand

4.13

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC's Law and… read more

Similar categories in Robert Rand's The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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11. How to Be an Antiracist

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.37

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justi… read more

Similar categories in Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • nonfiction
"Racist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"I use “anticapitalist"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"Internalized racism is the real Black on Black crime."

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

"But what was the difference between Ebonics and so-called “standard"

-Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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

12. 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

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’ by Nic  Edwards

13. The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’

By: Nic Edwards

3.75

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

On February 13, 2017 , two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went fo… read more

Similar categories in Nic Edwards's The Delphi Murders: The Quest To Find ‘The Man On The Bridge’ book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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14. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump

3.82

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue by John Glatt

15. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

By: John Glatt

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage by Rose Brik

16. My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

By: Rose Brik

4.26

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

"My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage" is the raw and emotionally charged debut poetry collection by … read more

Similar categories in Rose Brik's My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • nonfiction
"when your mother is your first love, you can search to the ends of the earth and never find any love comparable. when your mother is your first heartbreak, no love will ever fill the void of feeling …"

-Rose Brik, My Father's Eyes, My Mother's Rage

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17. Evil Boys

By: Clarissa Wild

3.98

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

I was hellbent on making them pay. Instead, they bent and twisted me. I am the golden child, the… read more

Similar categories in Clarissa Wild's Evil Boys book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

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18. Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11

By: Joseph Pfeifer

4.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the first FDNY chief to respond to the 9/11 attacks, an intimate memoir and a tribute to those… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Pfeifer's Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • nonfiction
Cover of College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight by Shawn Cohen

19. College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A gripping true crime book about a college girl who disappeared in plain sight When Lauren Spierer―… read more

Similar categories in Shawn Cohen's College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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20. Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

By: Hazel Thornton

4.01

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

More than two decades after serving as a juror on the high-profile seven-month murder trial People … read more

Similar categories in Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror book and Hazel Thornton's Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Bridesmaid Undercover (Bridesmaid for Hire, #2) by Meghan Quinn

21. Bridesmaid Undercover (Bridesmaid for Hire, #2)

By: Meghan Quinn

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Everly Plum is delighted to be heading up the Bridesmaid for Hire program at Magical Moments by Mag… read more

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17 must-read nonfiction books like Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror by Hazel Thornton

Transform Your Habits

For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice

Sharon Rocha

4.29

Transform Your Habits

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

James Renner

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up

Naya Rivera

3.98

Transform Your Habits

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

Dominick Dunne , O.J. Simpson , The Goldman Family , Pablo F. Fenjves

3.30

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Transform Your Habits

Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Peter Langman

3.83

Transform Your Habits

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Sue Klebold

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Newtown: An American Tragedy

Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Columbine

Dave Cullen

4.29

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