The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Bob Calhoun
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine …
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1. Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
By: Joel Selvin
4.19
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebra… read more
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2. Honus Wagner: A Biography
By: Dennis DeValeria , Jeanne Burke DeValeria
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Discusses the life and career of the famed baseball player, from his early days in the mines of wes… read more
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3. The Cases That Haunt Us (Lisa Drew Books)
By: None , Mark Olshaker
4.00
Format: 256 pages,
America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides his uniquely gripping analysis of seven of… read more
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4. The Other Girl
By: Erica Spindler
4.16
Format: None pages,
From the NYT bestselling author comes a chilling new thriller about a ritualistic murder of a colle… read more
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5. 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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6. The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
By: John E. Douglas
3.79
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Kill… read more
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"The journey to reckon with our nation's searing history of racial hatred, intolerance, and discrimination is ongoing, and there are no neutrals in that struggle. The shadow cast by Joseph Paul Frankl…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
"With today's technology, conversations that used to be limited to basements and meeting halls, the kinds of words and places that first helped radicalize Franklin, now have tens of thousands of parti…"-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
"Due to the remarkable advances in communications technologies, we find ourselves living at a time when it is far easier to radicalize and inspire hate than ever before. The internet and social media …"-John E. Douglas, The Killer's Shadow: The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer
7. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)
By: John E. Douglas
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more
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8. 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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9. 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
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10. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
By: Paul Holes
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more
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11. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
By: Peter Vronsky
3.87
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers fro… read more
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12. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
By: Greg Melville
4.00
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more
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"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries
13. Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them
By: Max Cutler
3.56
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on insi… read more
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14. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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15. The Twenty-Ninth Day
By: Alex Messenger
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more
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16. Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling
By: Ron Franscell
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare.… read more
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17. Nothing but the Rain
By: Naomi Salman
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A sleepy little town discovers its memories have become part of the water cycle in Naomi Salman's d… read more
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18. 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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19. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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20. The Double Life of Benson Yu
By: Kevin Chong
3.54
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more
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21. Number One Fan
By: Meg Elison
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestsel… read more
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22. The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth
By: Adam Goodheart
3.84
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated h… read more
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23. 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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24. Shadowheart (UNSUB #4)
By: Meg Gardiner
4.07
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
What happens when two serial killers begin to compete with each other? From #1 New York Times bests… read more
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25. This Will Be Funny Later
By: Jenny Pentland
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A funny, biting, and entertaining memoir of coming of age in the shadow of celebrity and finding yo… read more
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26. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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27. White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland
By: Dick Lehr
4.13
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, the thrilling true story of a would-be terrorist attack again… read more
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28. Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York's Baseball Soul
By: Chris Donnelly
3.96
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
Doc, Donnie, the Kid, and Billy Brawl focuses on the 1985 New York baseball season, a season like n… read more
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29. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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30. William
By: Mason Coile
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in… read more
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31. The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
By: Bob Calhoun
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine … read more
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