11 Top true crime books like The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West) by Kathleen A. Cairns

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The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

By: Kathleen A. Cairns

3.74

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

“Crack shot.” “Enigma woman.” “Good with ponies and pistols.” “A much-married woman.”   What if s…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West) by Kathleen A. Cairns , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Body Count

By: Burl Barer

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Details the horrifying murder spree of Robert Lee Yeats, a seemingly devoted husband and father, Na… read more

Similar categories in Burl Barer's Body Count book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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2. Our Little Secret: The True Story of a Teenage Killer and the Silence of a Small New England Town

By: Kevin Flynn , Rebecca Lavoie

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The true story of a teenage killer and the silence of a small New England town. For twenty years D… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer by Walter Gilmour, Leland E. Hale

3. Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer

By: Walter Gilmour , Leland E. Hale

3.81

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

The horrific story of how Robert Hansen hid his secret life as a murderous sexual predator—and hunt… read more

Similar categories in Walter Gilmour's Butcher, Baker: The True Account of an Alaskan Serial Killer book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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4. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tort… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime

5. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

By: Carol Shaben

4.75

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more

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6. Eye of the Beast: The True Story of Serial Killer James Wood

By: Scott Shaw , None , None

3.50

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

For a serial killer, his style is unique. No elaborate rituals. No predetermine victims. Just an in… read more

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7. Shadow Divers

By: Robert Kurson

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which t… read more

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8. The Girl in the Leaves

By: Robert Scott , Sarah Maynard

3.00

Format: None pages, ebook

THE STORY OF ONE OF THE MOST BIZARRE MASS MURDERS EVER RECORDED. AND THE GIRL WHO ESCAPED WITH HER … read more

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9. The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd

By: Jana Bommersbach

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends … read more

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10. Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

By: Julia Cooke

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted … read more

Similar categories in Julia Cooke's Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

11. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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12. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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13. Hour of the Witch

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.84

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

A young Puritan woman--faithful, resourceful, but afraid of the demons that dog her soul--plots her… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

"A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance."

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

"We are mortal. Nothing that touches us or we touch here is forever. Even rocks are rubbed small by the river."

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

". . . in her heart she feared it was something more: it was a sign. Because, if one looked around carefully, wasn’t everything?"

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

"I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions."

-Chris Bohjalian, Hour of the Witch

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14. The Second Life of Mirielle West

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In an intoxicating story of resilience, repulsion, and the Roaring 20’s, the glamorous world of a s… read more

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15. Crossroads

By: Jonathan Franzen

4.06

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

Cover of Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case by Charles Bosworth Jr.

16. 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

Similar categories in Charles Bosworth Jr.'s Bone Deep: Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

17. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

18. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

By: Sarah Weinman

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer: Gary Gene Grant (True Crime) by Cloyd Steiger

19. Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer: Gary Gene Grant (True Crime)

By: Cloyd Steiger

3.76

Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition

“An in-depth look at the 1971 trial of a serial killer who’s been mostly forgotten—except to those … read more

Similar categories in Cloyd Steiger's Seattle's Forgotten Serial Killer: Gary Gene Grant (True Crime) book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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20. The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

By: Kathleen A. Cairns

3.74

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

“Crack shot.” “Enigma woman.” “Good with ponies and pistols.” “A much-married woman.”   What if s… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West) book and Kathleen A. Cairns's The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime

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3.81

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2.67

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3.49

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3.94

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4.07

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4.29

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