16 Best true crime books like Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles by Julia Bricklin

Cover of Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles by Julia Bricklin

Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

By: Julia Bricklin

3.30

Format: None pages, ebook

Historian Julia Bricklin's BLONDE RATTLESNAKE, a narrative history of the trial of 19-year-old Burm…

If you liked the true crime plot in Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles by Julia Bricklin , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Leavers

By: Lisa Ko

3.86

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at… read more

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2. A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal

By: Jen Waite

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

What do you do when you discover that the person you've built your life around never existed? When … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America by Les Standiford, Joe Matthews

3. Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America

By: Les Standiford , Joe Matthews

3.66

Format: 146 pages,

Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Miss… read more

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. Love Her To Death

By: M. William Phelps

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of our most engaging crime journalists. --Katherine Ramsland True Love Kills In the midst of Pe… read more

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream

By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more

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7. My Year as a Clown

By: Robert Steven Williams

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Silver Medal Winner for Popular Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards. With My Year as… read more

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8. Cruel Death

By: M. William Phelps

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

From investigating journalist M. William Phelps comes the true story of a couple whose criminal exp… read more

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9. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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10. Dancing with Death: The True Story of a Glamorous Showgirl, her Wealthy Husband, and a Horrifying Murder

By: Shanna Hogan

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Former stripper turned suburban housewife Marjorie Orbin filed a missing pe… read more

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11. Fatal Passions

By: Adrian Vincent

3.60

Format: None pages,

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12. A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

By: Barry Siegel

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"We want to talk to you about my brother who was murdered twenty-one years ago--can we come in?" Th… read more

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13. The Professor & the Coed: Scandal & Murder at the Ohio State University (True Crime)

By: Mark Gribben

3.63

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

In the sweltering summer of 1929, the people of Columbus, Ohio, were enthralled by news of the Ohio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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14. Early Graves

By: Thomas H. Cook

3.72

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Shocking true crime from the Edgar Award–winning author. “Powerful . . . A frightening close-up of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Daughter of the White River:: Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta (True Crime)

By: Denise White Parkinson

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The once-thriving ho… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

17. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko

4.03

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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19. The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)

By: A.J. Hackwith

3.82

Format: 384 pages, ebook

In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors re… read more

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"The best stories are bled."

-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)

"Nothing burns up humanity as thoroughly as eternity."

-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)

"Beat an archangel, divert war, save our souls. Simple as that?"

-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)

"Build good fences, make good friends, and keep your laundry indoors."

-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)

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20. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles A. Gardner

22. Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State

By: Charles A. Gardner

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Prison Break, the Manhunt, the Inside Story The True Story of the Prison Escape That Inspire… read more

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case by Caitlin Rother

23. 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

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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24. Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

By: Sarah Berman

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more sec… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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25. The Stone Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)

By: Hourly History

4.22

Format: 64 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the remarkable history of the Stone Age...Free BONUS Inside!The cave dwellers of the Stone… read more

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  • history
Cover of The Men on the Sixth Floor: The "Must Have" JFK Assassination Book for the Serious Researcher. by Glen Sample

26. The Men on the Sixth Floor: The "Must Have" JFK Assassination Book for the Serious Researcher.

By: Glen Sample

4.16

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

The web of murder and greed is clearly explained in this book that was the first to reveal the stro… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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27. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

By: Miles Harvey

3.69

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

28. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

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  • mystery
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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29. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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

30. 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

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  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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31. Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrorized Los Angeles

By: Julia Bricklin

3.30

Format: None pages, ebook

Historian Julia Bricklin's BLONDE RATTLESNAKE, a narrative history of the trial of 19-year-old Burm… read more

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4.17

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