15 must-read true crime books like A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial by Karen Edwards

Cover of A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial by Karen Edwards

A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial

By: Karen Edwards

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother's story behind one of the most dramatic true crime cases in recent history. 'I have lived …

If you liked the true crime plot in A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial by Karen Edwards , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Evil Within: Murdered by her stepbrother – the crime that shocked a nation. The heartbreaking story of Becky Watts by her father by Darren Galsworthy

1. The Evil Within: Murdered by her stepbrother – the crime that shocked a nation. The heartbreaking story of Becky Watts by her father

By: Darren Galsworthy

4.27

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Previously published as Becky, this is the heartbreaking story behind the murder of 16-year-old Bri… read more

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  • mystery
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

2. If You Really Loved Me

By: Ann Rule

3.91

Format: None pages,

There was only one way to please her father: Murder his wife.... David Brown was the consummate ent… read more

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Goodbye, Dearest Holly: Ten Years On by Kevin Wells

3. Goodbye, Dearest Holly: Ten Years On

By: Kevin Wells

4.12

Format: 29 pages,

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Finding Suzy: The Hunt for Missing Estate Agent Suzy Lamplugh and 'Mr Kipper' by David Videcette

4. Finding Suzy: The Hunt for Missing Estate Agent Suzy Lamplugh and 'Mr Kipper'

By: David Videcette

4.37

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

How can someone just disappear?Step inside a real-life, missing person investigation in this compel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Drop Dead Dangerous: The Lethal Attraction of Road Trip Killer, Paul John Knowles (True Crime) by Ryan Green

5. Drop Dead Dangerous: The Lethal Attraction of Road Trip Killer, Paul John Knowles (True Crime)

By: Ryan Green

3.88

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1974, the US East Coast was whipped up into a frenzy of fear. Locking their windows and doors, e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs by Amanda Lamb

6. Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

By: Amanda Lamb

4.01

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfect life. A perfect lie. When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina with he… read more

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart by Joan Leech

7. Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart

By: Joan Leech

4.27

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

This extraordinary true story will move you to tears and inspire you to never give up. Set in No… read more

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Cover of I Survived: A True Story. by Victoria Cilliers

8. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Through A Mother’s Tears by Cathy Broomfield

9. Through A Mother’s Tears

By: Cathy Broomfield

4.16

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cathy Broomfield’s youngest daughter Kirsty disappeared, Cathy hoped she had gone to stay with… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex by Hannah Morgan

10. Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex

By: Hannah Morgan

4.60

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of After the Wedding: A true story of hope, love, ... and fear. by Eileen Gibb

11. After the Wedding: A true story of hope, love, ... and fear.

By: Eileen Gibb

3.91

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A young couple meet and fall in love. There are warning signs of trouble ahead, but doesn’t love co… read more

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Cover of Don't Smile: A Gripping True Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control by Charlotte  Robertson

12. Don't Smile: A Gripping True Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

By: Charlotte Robertson

4.14

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting memoir that describes one woman's journey through shocking levels of domestic abuse and … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam by Coleen Greenwood

13. Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam

By: Coleen Greenwood

4.46

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

"In my 23 years of policing, I have never encountered a man as manipulative as Greg Wilson … a comp… read more

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Cover of Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives) by Michelle   Pearson

14. Taken: A True Story of the Pain and Scandal of Forced Adoption (Stolen Lives)

By: Michelle Pearson

4.18

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1972, Michelle Pearson gave up her son for adoption. As ‘one of those girls’, she was expecte… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Why don't you just leave him?: A Domestic violence true story. by Stacey Jameson

15. Why don't you just leave him?: A Domestic violence true story.

By: Stacey Jameson

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

This honest and open autobiography is the true story of a young woman trapped in a relationship tha… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of If Only: Living in the Shadows of the Moors Murders by Terry West

16. If Only: Living in the Shadows of the Moors Murders

By: Terry West

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

On Boxing Day 1964 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey left home to go to the fair. Her older brother, Te… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped by Lynnette Williams

17. Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped

By: Lynnette Williams

4.50

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world by Richard Henriques

18. From Crime to Crime: Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 cases that shocked the world

By: Richard Henriques

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'If Henriques were a fictional character, he would be a celebrity, the kind of dashing, hawkish QC … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of My Girl: The Babes in the Woods murders. A mother’s fight for justice. by Michelle Hadaway

19. My Girl: The Babes in the Woods murders. A mother’s fight for justice.

By: Michelle Hadaway

4.47

Format: 311 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted in the 'True Crime Book Of The Year' category for Capital Crime’s Fingerprint Awards, 2… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of HIM: A True Story Of Love & Fear by Danielle    Davis

20. HIM: A True Story Of Love & Fear

By: Danielle Davis

4.30

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

We never know what is going on behind closed doors, if that happy smile we see every day from the w… read more

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Cover of Out of the Frying Pan. by Veronica Neill

21. Out of the Frying Pan.

By: Veronica Neill

4.20

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Born into a violent / mentally dis-functional family. Living with an aunt with a dark secret which … read more

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Cover of The Hunt: The True Story of Alaska's Most Notorious Serial Killer, Robert Hansen (True Crime) by Ryan Green

22. The Hunt: The True Story of Alaska's Most Notorious Serial Killer, Robert Hansen (True Crime)

By: Ryan Green

4.05

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1970s, a local baker harboured a dark secret that plunged Anchorage into a state of terror. … read more

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  • true crime
Cover of Unimaginable Loss: A true story of murder, heartbreaking injustice, and surviving the unthinkable by Joseph Thuney

23. Unimaginable Loss: A true story of murder, heartbreaking injustice, and surviving the unthinkable

By: Joseph Thuney

4.46

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Within two and a half years, I would live through the molestation of my only grandchild by her pate… read more

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Cover of Somebody Up There Likes Me: Living with the Threat of Huntington’s Disease by Melanie Pearson

24. Somebody Up There Likes Me: Living with the Threat of Huntington’s Disease

By: Melanie Pearson

4.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought that unbreakable family curses only happened in fairy tales, think again. Nobody re… read more

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Cover of For the Love of Nadia by Sarah Taylor

25. For the Love of Nadia

By: Sarah Taylor

4.26

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sarah Taylor suspected that her four-year-old daughter, Nadia, had been kidnapped by Fawzi, he… read more

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Cover of A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial by Karen Edwards

26. A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial

By: Karen Edwards

4.38

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A mother's story behind one of the most dramatic true crime cases in recent history. 'I have lived … read more

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  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
Cover of Frogs In A Pot : She emotionally and physically abused five men - and her own daughter - to satisfy her narcissistic needs by K.D. Kinz

27. Frogs In A Pot : She emotionally and physically abused five men - and her own daughter - to satisfy her narcissistic needs

By: K.D. Kinz

4.62

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

This situation could be happening - at this very moment - to you, your son, your brother or a frien… read more

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Cover of #Justice For Ashley: A Shocking True Crime Story by Rod Kackley

28. #Justice For Ashley: A Shocking True Crime Story

By: Rod Kackley

3.14

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

Worse than murder. More heinous than homicide. Ashley's mother wants justice.#Justice For Ashley is… read more

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Cover of NATALIE: A young mother brutally murdered. The Search for her killer. A True Story by Paul Davison

29. NATALIE: A young mother brutally murdered. The Search for her killer. A True Story

By: Paul Davison

4.22

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the gruesome discovery of the badly decomposed dismembered body of Natalie Clubb in a rem… read more

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Cover of Stolen Years: A True Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival by Darrel Day

30. Stolen Years: A True Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival

By: Darrel Day

4.11

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Connie {Sarff} Nelson, a woman from Minnesota that was abducted by her estrang… read more

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Cover of Justice for Helen: A Mother's Quest to Find Her Murdered Daughter by Marie McCourt

31. Justice for Helen: A Mother's Quest to Find Her Murdered Daughter

By: Marie McCourt

4.70

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

AS FEATURED IN 'THE MIRROR', THIS IS THE STORY OF A MOTHER'S QUEST TO FIND HER MURDERED DAUGHTER … read more

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  • true crime

17 Best nonfiction books like A Killer's Confession: And a mother's fight to bring her daughter, Becky Godden-Edwards', murderer to trial by Karen Edwards

Transform Your Habits

The Evil Within: Murdered by her stepbrother – the crime that shocked a nation. The heartbreaking story of Becky Watts by her father

Darren Galsworthy

4.27

Transform Your Habits

If You Really Loved Me

Ann Rule

3.91

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Goodbye, Dearest Holly: Ten Years On

Kevin Wells

4.12

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Finding Suzy: The Hunt for Missing Estate Agent Suzy Lamplugh and 'Mr Kipper'

David Videcette

4.37

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The Kuřim Case: A Terrifying True Story of Child Abuse, Cults & Cannibalism

Ryan Green

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

Ryan Green

3.79

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Drop Dead Dangerous: The Lethal Attraction of Road Trip Killer, Paul John Knowles (True Crime)

Ryan Green

3.88

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Torture Mom: A Chilling True Story of Confinement, Mutilation and Murder

Ryan Green

3.92

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