9 must-read crime books like Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911 by Drew Gray

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Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911

By: Drew Gray

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Vivid and intriguing, Murder Maps plots the nineteenth century’s most dramatic murders from around …

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1. Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

By: Bess Lovejoy

3.84

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

IN THE LONG RUN, WE’RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death mar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
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2. The Haunted: One Family's Nightmare

By: Robert Curran

3.75

Format: None pages,

Jack and Janet Smurl and their family have been victims of abuse - both mental and physical - by in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1—Phantom Blood, Vol. 1

By: Hirohiko Araki , Evan Galloway

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

Young Jonathan Joestar's life is forever changed when he meets his new adopted brother, Dio. For so… read more

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4. Resurrection Bay (Caleb Zelic, #1)

By: Emma Viskic

3.91

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Caleb Zelic, profoundly deaf since early childhood, has always lived on the outside - watching, pic… read more

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  • crime
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5. Raven's Gate

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

He always knew he was different. First there were the dreams. Then the deaths began. When Matt Free… read more

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6. Justiz

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ein Zurcher Kantonsrat erschiesst in einem uberfullten, von Politikern, Wirtschaftskoryphaen und Ku… read more

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7. Princes Gate (DCI Frank Merlin, #1)

By: Mark Ellis

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Princes Gate is the first in a new series of crime thrillers that involve DCI Frank Merlin. These a… read more

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8. The Truth and Other Lies

By: Imogen Taylor , Sascha Arango

3.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dark, witty, and suspenseful, this literary crime thriller reminiscent of The Dinner and The Silent… read more

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9. Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

By: Shaun Bythell

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"There's a difference between a book being too expensive and a customer being too cheap."

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"

-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

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10. London Bridge is Falling Down (Bryant & May, #18)

By: Christopher Fowler

4.33

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Oh, joy, a new Peculiar Crimes Unit case by Christopher Fowler . . . the best fun is running all ov… read more

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  • crime
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11. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

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12. Tightrope (Burning Cove, #3)

By: Amanda Quick

3.95

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race again… read more

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13. The Ghost Theatre

By: Mat Osman

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child … read more

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14. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

By: Sam Kean

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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15. The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths. … read more

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  • crime
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16. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

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  • crime
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17. The Godmothers

By: Camille Aubray

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Big Little Lies set in World War II era Greenwich Village! An irresistible, suspenseful novel about… read more

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18. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

By: J.W. Ocker

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. West Heart Kill

By: Dann McDorman

3.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the West Heart country club. Where the drinks are neat but behind closed doors . . . thi… read more

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  • crime
"You're a private detective."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"People hunger for epiphany, you think, they clamor for it, but given a chance, who among us would actually recognize it? Or, having seen it, would choose to act?"

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

"This is, you reflect, one of the consolations of the genre: any respectable practitioner must follow the rules in making the truth–however skillfully camouflaged by lies–accessible to all."

-Dann McDorman, West Heart Kill

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20. Unraveller

By: Frances Hardinge

4.10

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark YA fantasy about learning to use your power and finding peace, from award-winning author Fra… read more

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"I don't think about "being happy" unless I'm with you, and then I never am. Humans are never happy."

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"Changing a law is like digging a new field. You'll break ancient roots and blunt your spade with a lot of stones, but eventually plants will grow in your furrows, and your new hedge will thrive and i…"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"You'd know you were a boy, so she would too. If someone knows they're a man or boy, that's what matters. Outside appearences aren't important. It's what's inside that counts—who we are in our souls. …"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

"You'd be better at it than me' he told Nettle when he visited her. 'This sort of Unravelling doesn't feel like I'm using a magical gift. Sometimes it's like I'm a ghost walking alongside somebody on …"

-Frances Hardinge, Unraveller

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21. The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee (44 Scotland Street, #17)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in the warm and welcoming 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite r… read more

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22. My Throat an Open Grave

By: Tori Bovalino

3.84

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Labyrinth meets folk horror in this darkly romantic tale of a girl who wishes her baby brother away… read more

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23. The Hidden Storyteller

By: Mandy Robotham

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

International bestselling author Mandy Robotham returns with a brand new tale set in war-torn Germa… read more

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24. 101 Ways To Read A Book

By: Timothée de Fombelle

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The Sunflower, The contortionist, The sleepwalker, The romantic . . . this one-of-a-kind whimsical … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 by Richard Bassett

25. Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89

By: Richard Bassett

3.90

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part reflection, this book will bring to life central Europe during the last ten years… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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26. Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

By: Sarah Coolidge

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist… A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brin… read more

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27. Murder Maps USA: Crime Scenes Revisited; Bloodstains to Ballistics, 1865 -1939

By: Adam Selzer

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Vivid and intriguing, Murder Maps USA plots the most remarkable American homicides between the Civi… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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28. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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29. Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911

By: Drew Gray

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Vivid and intriguing, Murder Maps plots the nineteenth century’s most dramatic murders from around … read more

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  • true crime
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  • 20th century
  • crime
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30. Liberation Square

By: Gareth Rubin

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After the disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany, and only rescued by Rus… read more

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31. Escaping the Body

By: Chloe N. Clark

3.91

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

Chloe N. Clark’s poetry collection takes readers through a catalog of the speculative body. Escapin… read more

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7 best-selling history books like Murder Maps: Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911 by Drew Gray

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4.09

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Sam Kean

4.00

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Domenica de Rosa

3.00

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Mark Billingham

4.11

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Val McDermid

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