20 best-selling true crime books like Mothers & Murderers by Katherine Ellison

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Mothers & Murderers

By: Katherine Ellison

3.69

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

New from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison! Mothers & Murderers: A True Story …

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1. If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation

By: Janine Latus

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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2. But I Trusted You and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #14)

By: Ann Rule

3.91

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Trust. It's the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and famil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. Kiss of the She-Devil

By: M. William Phelps

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

When librarian Martha Gail Fulton was gunned down in a Michigan parking lot on a quiet evening, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. 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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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. Fatal Romance

By: Lisa Pulitzer

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nancy Richards was a young, beautiful speechwriter when she met Jeremy Akers, a decorated war hero … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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6. Gone Forever

By: Diane Fanning

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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7. Sins of the Son

By: Carlton Stowers

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

An acclaimed true-crime author takes on his toughest project of all-- writing about a murderer who … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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8. Murderers' Row: A Collection of Shocking True Crime Stories

By: M. William Phelps

3.79

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting collection of true crime stories from the files of award-winning journalist and Ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

9. Heart Full of Lies: A True Story of Desire and Death

By: Ann Rule

3.80

Format: 8 pages,

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10. Double Homicide

By: Faye Kellerman , Jonathan Kellerman

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In Santa Fe, Darrel Two Moons and Steve Katz are called to the scene of a blunt-force homicide. Did… read more

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11. The Rabbi and the Hit Man: A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and Shattered Faith

By: Arthur J. Magida

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

A fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever accused of murder and what the case s… read more

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12. Without Pity: Ann Rule's Most Dangerous Killers

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

THEY KILL WITHOUT CONSCIENCE. ANN RULE PORTRAYS THEIR SHATTERING CRIMES WITHOUT PITY. In eight stun… read more

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13. Cruel Sacrifice

By: Aphrodite Jones

3.85

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

On a freezing January in 1992, five teenage girls crowded into a car. By the end of the night, only… read more

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14. Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer

By: Harold Schechter

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Paperback

A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND Y… read more

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15. American Black Widow

By: Gregg Olsen

3.75

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable stor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. 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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18. The Sister Under the Stairs

By: Steena Holmes

4.09

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Please note this is a revised edition of Lies We Tell Ourselves. My twin sister disappeared twel… read more

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19. The Family Cabin

By: James Caine

4.01

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s a young woman tied up in the basement of our cabin. It was supposed to be a fun weekend … read more

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20. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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21. The Good Wife

By: Gemma Rogers

4.35

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Appearances can be deceiving… After a whirlwind romance and three years of marriage, I’d tried to b… read more

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22. 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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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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23. Wicked Sharp (Born Bad, Book 1)

By: Meghan O'Flynn

3.72

Format: 165 pages, Kindle Edition

Fast-paced, electric, and barbed with nerve-shredding thrills, Wicked Sharp is exquisitely addictiv… read more

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24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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25. The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved (True Crime)

By: Shuler

3.78

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

  For decades, evidence of the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle lay in the evidence room at th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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26. Toxic Rage: A Tale Of Murder In Tucson

By: A.J. Flick

3.55

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Stidham fell in love with Tucson, Ariz., the minute he came to town. A young and talented eye… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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27. Mothers & Murderers

By: Katherine Ellison

3.69

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

New from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Ellison! Mothers & Murderers: A True Story … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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28. Dead In The Water

By: Penny Farmer

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

True Crime: The book behind the major NEW Amazon Prime three-part TV documentary. It contains the s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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29. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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30. The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

By: Florence de Changy

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen in close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not poss… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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31. Daisy: The Complete Series (The Collected Editions)

By: Amy Cross

4.19

Format: 674 pages, Kindle Edition

He kidnapped her. He tied her up in his basement. He prepared to kill her, just like he killed all … read more

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Janine Latus

3.50

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3.91

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4.09

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4.17

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