15 must-read true crime books like Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father by Carys Cragg

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Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

By: Carys Cragg

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this gripping and emotional memoir, a woman confronts the man who murdered her father twenty yea…

If you liked the true crime plot in Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father by Carys Cragg , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
Cover of Almost Interesting by David Spade

2. Almost Interesting

By: David Spade

4.03

Format: 96 pages, ebook

A hilarious and biting memoir from the actor, comedian and Saturday Night Livealumni David Spade. D… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. Obstruction of Justice: The Search for Truth on Canada's Highway of Tears

By: None

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Highway of Tears" is a lonely seven hundred kilometer stretch of road that winds through the C… read more

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4. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

By: Tanya Talaga

4.52

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1966, twelve-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away fro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • canada
"Rebuilding an inequitable and harmful relationship is not easy. But for the good of all our children – Indigenous and not – the hard work must begin."

-Tanya Talaga, Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

5. December Park

By: Ronald Malfi

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

In the quiet suburb of Harting Farms, the weekly crime blotter usually consists of graffiti or the … read more

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6. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Donnie Eichar

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more

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7. A Night to Remember

By: Walter Lord , Nathaniel Philbrick

3.67

Format: 208 pages,

The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition w… read more

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8. Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

3.53

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

From the macabre mind of Bram Stoker Award nominated author Craig DiLouie, Episode Thirteen is a he… read more

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9. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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10. A Reasonable Doubt (Robin Lockwood #3)

By: Phillip Margolin

3.67

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A magician linked to three murders and suspicious deaths years ago disappears in the middle of his … read more

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Cover of Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

11. Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

By: Jessica McDiarmid

4.30

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A searing account of the missing, and murdered, Indigenous women of Highway 16, and an indictment o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • canada
Cover of A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by Neil Bradbury

12. 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
  • true crime
"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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13. Never Have I Ever

By: Joshilyn Jackson

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this game, even winning can be deadly... Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simpl… read more

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14. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

15. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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

16. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0) by William Kent Krueger

17. Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.27

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the instant New York Times best seller This Tender Land returns with a powerful preq… read more

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18. Take Your Breath Away

By: Linwood Barclay

4.04

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Find You First and Elevator Pitch comes a gripping ps… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

19. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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20. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By: Samra Habib

4.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

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21. Looking for Jane

By: Heather Marshall

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, an… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer by Holly Marie

22. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

23. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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24. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • true crime
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25. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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26. The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family

By: Lindsay Wong

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
Cover of Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel by Amy Price

27. Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

By: Amy Price

3.47

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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28. Shiver

By: Allie Reynolds

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

They don't know what I did. And I intend to keep it that way. How far would you go to win? Hyper… read more

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"...he hasn't spent his whole life playing catch-up. He was born in the lead. I don't have that luxury. I swallow hard. "You wouldn't get it. You're the older one."

-Allie Reynolds, Shiver

Cover of Mommy Don’t From Mother to Murderer: The True Story of Penny and Karissa Boudreau  by Sherri Aikenhead

29. Mommy Don’t From Mother to Murderer: The True Story of Penny and Karissa Boudreau 

By: Sherri Aikenhead

4.23

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

On January 29, 2008, just days after a bitter winter storm, Nova Scotians watched with breaking hea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • canada
Cover of Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father by Carys Cragg

30. Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

By: Carys Cragg

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this gripping and emotional memoir, a woman confronts the man who murdered her father twenty yea… read more

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  • memoir
  • canada
  • true crime
Cover of Terry & Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope by Bill Vigars

31. Terry & Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope

By: Bill Vigars

4.19

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

There has never been a Canadian quite like Terry Fox and there’s never been a story quite like The … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • canada

19 best-selling nonfiction books like Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father by Carys Cragg

Transform Your Habits

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

James Renner

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Almost Interesting

David Spade

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

Tanya Talaga

4.52

Transform Your Habits

The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

Samantha Leach

3.22

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Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

Transform Your Habits

To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

John Coston

3.93

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