7 Top crime books like Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders by William C. Costopoulos

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Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders

By: William C. Costopoulos

3.78

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Wambaugh's Echoes in the Darkness and its subsequent TV dramatization have made household wo…

If you liked the crime plot in Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders by William C. Costopoulos , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

By: Malcolm Gladwell

3.97

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

In his #1 bestselling books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell has explored t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

"A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive – and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down."

-Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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2. Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer

By: Bruce Henderson

4.07

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

Some books about serial killers are dramatic and emotional. Trace Evidence, by contrast, has a stea… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Killing Kind

By: M. William Phelps

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Spraw… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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4. English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable

By: Lacey Baldwin Smith

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

By: Kate Clifford Larson

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

They were the most prominent American family of the twentieth century. The daughter they secreted a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

6. The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more

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8. An Innocent Client (Joe Dillard, #1)

By: Scott Pratt

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A preacher is found brutally murdered in a Tennessee motel room. A beautiful, mysterious young girl… read more

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9. Innocent Blood: A true story of obsession and serial murder

By: Terry Ganey

4.00

Format: None pages,

Like a real-life Hannibal Lecter--the psychopathic murderer from Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lam… read more

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10. Terror in Ypsilanti: John Norman Collins Unmasked

By: Gregory A. Fournier

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Between the summers of 1967 through 1969, before the term serial killer was coined, a predatory kil… read more

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11. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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12. The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict

4.04

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's The First Ladies book and William C. Costopoulos's Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders

  • audiobook
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13. A Tangled Web

By: Leslie Rule

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of her acclaimed mother, Ann Rule, author of The Stranger Beside Me, bestselling a… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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14. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Loyalty

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.76

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zi… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Scottoline's Loyalty book and William C. Costopoulos's Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders

  • audiobook
Cover of Duct Tape Killer: The True Inside Story of Sexual Sadist & Murderer Robert Leroy Anderson by Phil Hamman

16. Duct Tape Killer: The True Inside Story of Sexual Sadist & Murderer Robert Leroy Anderson

By: Phil Hamman

3.86

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

“MY MOMMY IS GOING TO DIE,” SHAINA SOBBED INTO THE PHONE. When Piper Streyle failed to show up for … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth by Carlton Smith

17. Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth

By: Carlton Smith

3.96

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River A chilling true account of the dream… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case by Caitlin Rother

18. Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case

By: Caitlin Rother

3.67

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Caitlin Rother explores the mysterious death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who w… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back by William D. LaRue

19. A Stranger Killed Katy: The True Story of Katherine Hawelka, Her Murder on a New York Campus, and How Her Family Fought Back

By: William D. LaRue

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

KATY DIED THREE DAYS AFTER THE BRUTAL ATTACK. JUSTICE ARRIVED THREE DECADES LATER. In the early mor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

20. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

Cover of Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders by William C. Costopoulos

21. Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders

By: William C. Costopoulos

3.78

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Wambaugh's Echoes in the Darkness and its subsequent TV dramatization have made household wo… read more

Similar categories in William C. Costopoulos's Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders book and William C. Costopoulos's Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

15 Top audiobook books like Principal Suspect: The True Story of Dr. Jay Smith and the Main Line Murders by William C. Costopoulos

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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Malcolm Gladwell

3.97

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Trace Evidence: The Hunt for the I-5 Serial Killer

Bruce Henderson

4.07

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The Killing Kind

M. William Phelps

3.90

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English History Made Brief, Irreverent and Pleasurable

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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4.45

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

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3.99

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Erik Larson

4.24

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