19 must-read nonfiction books like Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York by Julie Miller

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Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York

By: Julie Miller

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Description In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at mu…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York by Julie Miller , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James

1. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By: Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small …"

-Bill James, The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

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2. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

3.44

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

3. The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

By: Sam Kean

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neu… read more

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Cover of A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

4. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Cover of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

5. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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6. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

7. A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

By: Neil Bradbury

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant blend of science and crime, 'A TASTE FOR POISON' reveals how eleven notorious poisons a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes what makes things toxic is exactly what allows them to be used for good."

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

"Rather than throw the white arsenic away, it was realised that money could be made by selling the substance as a poison to get rid of all kinds of vermin, including cockroaches, rats, stray animals -…"

-Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

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8. Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap

By: David Roberts

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

9. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

10. Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The explosive, first-ever insider’s account of the case that’s captivated millions--the murder of B… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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11. Murder Thy Neighbor (ID True Crime Book 4)

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

As seen on ID, these two true-crime thrillers follow a neighbors' quarrel that turns violent and cy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

12. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • 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

13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

14. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

By: Susan Wels

3.33

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

15. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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16. Erebus: The Story of a Ship

By: Michael Palin

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

17. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

Cover of Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media by Darrell Hartman

18. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

By: Darrell Hartman

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk by Buddy Levy

19. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

By: Buddy Levy

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York by Julie    Miller

20. Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York

By: Julie Miller

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Description In Cry of Murder on Broadway, Julie Miller shows how a woman's desperate attempt at mu… read more

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  • new york
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like Cry of Murder on Broadway: A Woman's Ruin and Revenge in Old New York by Julie Miller

Transform Your Habits

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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11 Top adult books like Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

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If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

Gregg Olsen , Rebecca Morris

4.25

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Written in Blood

Diane Fanning

4.10

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We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

M. William Phelps

4.10

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A Tangled Web

Leslie Rule

4.01

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