13 must-read true crime books like Murder & Mayhem in Seattle by Teresa Nordheim

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Murder & Mayhem in Seattle

By: Teresa Nordheim

3.17

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives a…

If you liked the true crime plot in Murder & Mayhem in Seattle by Teresa Nordheim , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Jaws

By: Peter Benchley

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating ter… read more

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2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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3. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

By: Kate Moore

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger. The Curies' newly discov… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.01

Format: 30 pages,

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth G… read more

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5. Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult

By: None

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs,… read more

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6. Ranger Confidential: Living, Working, and Dying in the National Parks

By: Andrea Lankford

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The realstories behind the scenery of America's national parks For twelve years, Andrea Lankford li… read more

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7. 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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8. The DC Dead Girls Club: A Vintage True Crime Story of Four Unsolved Murders in Washington DC

By: Jason Lucky Morrow

4.29

Format: 426 pages,

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9. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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10. 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

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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11. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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12. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

By: Jillian Lauren

3.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

By: Nick Offerman

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about … read more

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  • nonfiction
"...when you make art with confidence, then clumsiness doesn't play as clumsiness, but panache."

-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

"Break up your cycle. Get out of your rut. Find a way in your normal setting to "feel alive." One thing I'll do is get up early and see the sunrise from my yard, or for some bonus points, from my roof…"

-Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

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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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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • 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. Camp Zero

By: Michelle Min Sterling

3.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a near-future northern settlement, a handful of climate change survivors find their fates intert… read more

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"Now Grant understood. College wasn't about books and ideas and new directions. It was slow annihilation."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

"Why do men take so easily whatever they want? Because nothing will ever be enough, she realizes. The more a man possesses, the more he thinks he deserves."

-Michelle Min Sterling, Camp Zero

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16. Murder in the Family: Inside story of the Jersey murders

By: Jeremy Josephs

3.93

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

As this true crime tale of murder shows, even the most successful families can hide terrible secret… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. The House Is on Fire

By: Rachel Beanland

4.10

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more

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"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."

-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

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18. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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19. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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20. Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

By: Kira Jane Buxton

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a gen… read more

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"Penguins, it turns out, are pretty fucking delightful."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

"Murders are forever, and what happens to one happens to all."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

"The woods carry sounds in their slow rhythms, sounds that only a heart can hear."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

"And everyone on earth knows if you have the respect of a cat it means your soul is worth being around."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

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21. The Haunting of Maddy Clare

By: Simone St. James

3.86

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting … read more

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"There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take…"

-Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare

"I was struck again by the deep quiet of the countryside, the absence of any human sounds; my mind still expected the clamor of cars, voices, all the clatter of nonstop human movement. Here was only t…"

-Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare

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22. The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska, #1)

By: Sarah Morgenthaler

3.52

Format: 352 pages, ebook

When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he's stuck slingin… read more

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"Karaoke machines are evil-er than Ouija boards. They just keep coming back!"

-Sarah Morgenthaler, The Tourist Attraction (Moose Springs, Alaska, #1)

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23. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm

By: Mark Sebastian Jordan

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

This chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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25. The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of the Whole Stupid World

By: Matt Kracht

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This must-have sequel to the bestselling parody book The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America… read more

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

26. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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27. Ghosts of Harvard

By: Francesca Serritella

3.70

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts heari… read more

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"The universe will always have its secrets."

-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard

"Stars don't project the future, they reflect the past."

-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard

"Adventure is only possible if you don't spoil the ending."

-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard

"You can see more in total darkness than you ever could in light."

-Francesca Serritella, Ghosts of Harvard

Cover of True Crime Case Histories - Volume 10: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder, Deception, and Mayhem (Volume 10) by Jason Neal

28. True Crime Case Histories - Volume 10: 12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder, Deception, and Mayhem (Volume 10)

By: Jason Neal

4.30

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

True crime is not for everyone. But chances are, if you’ve picked up this book, you already know th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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29. Legends of the North Cascades

By: Jonathan Evison

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Beautifully rendered and cinematic . . . A story of survival and the love and devotion between par… read more

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Cover of The Ashland Tragedy: Murder, Mob & a Militia in Kentucky (True Crime) by H.E. Castle

30. The Ashland Tragedy: Murder, Mob & a Militia in Kentucky (True Crime)

By: H.E. Castle

3.48

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime history recounts the notorious nineteenth-century murder of three Kentucky children… read more

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  • true crime
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31. Murder & Mayhem in Seattle

By: Teresa Nordheim

3.17

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives a… read more

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3.94

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John Scalzi

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Sabrina Imbler

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