10 Best nonfiction books like Malice In Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of The Laurel Canyon Murders by Tom Lange

Cover of Malice In Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of The Laurel Canyon Murders by Tom Lange

Malice In Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of The Laurel Canyon Murders

By: Tom Lange

4.00

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A true story of one of the most gruesome mass murders in Los Angeles history. This incredible twent…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Malice In Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of The Laurel Canyon Murders by Tom Lange , here is a list of 10 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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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"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. Dog Soldiers

By: Robert Stone

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse th… read more

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  • crime
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3. The Sentinel

By: Jeffrey Konvitz

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A beautiful young model. The old brownstone apartment she simply had to have. The grotesque blind p… read more

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Cover of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

4. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

By: Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry

4.06

Format: 687 pages, Paperback

Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth."

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in the…"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor …"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

"One day Manson tried with me. I stared right back, holding his gaze until his hands started shaking. During the recess, I slid my chair over next to his and asked, "What are you trembling about, Char…"

-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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5. Murder in Greenwich

By: Mark Fuhrman , None

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this powerful new book, expert investigator Mark Fuhrman, the controversial former LAPD homicide… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

6. VALIS (VALIS Trilogy, #1)

By: Philip K. Dick

3.44

Format: 220 pages,

VALISis the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being The … read more

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Cover of Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood by Michael  Walker

7. Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood

By: Michael Walker

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Double Indemnity

By: James M. Cain

4.06

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more

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  • crime
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

9. 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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10. The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes (5 Year Anniversary)

By: Dawn Schiller

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Painstakingly honest, this chilling memoir reveals how a teenager became immersed in the bizarre li… read more

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11. The Sinatra Club: My Life Inside the New York Mafia

By: None

3.23

Format: 304 pages,

A Simon & Schuster eBook read more

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12. Murder In Brentwood

By: Mark Fuhrman

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

For O.J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop - a brilliant detective - had to he destr… read more

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13. A Season in Purgatory

By: Dominick Dunne

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

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14. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

15. Scary Monsters and Super Freaks: Stories of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll and Murder

By: Mike Sager

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society… read more

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Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

16. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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

17. 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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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

18. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Malice In Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of The Laurel Canyon Murders by Tom Lange

19. Malice In Wonderland: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of The Laurel Canyon Murders

By: Tom Lange

4.00

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

A true story of one of the most gruesome mass murders in Los Angeles history. This incredible twent… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Manu Larcenet

20. The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Manu Larcenet

4.49

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize–winning postapocalyptic… read more

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Cover of The Devil and John Holmes: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder by Mike Sager

21. The Devil and John Holmes: And Other True Stories of Drugs, Porn and Murder

By: Mike Sager

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

“John Holmes was every man’s gigolo, a polyester smoothie with a sparse mustache, a flying collar a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

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3.46

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Robert Stone

4.00

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4.06

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