19 must-read true crime books like Death by Talons: Did An Owl 'Murder' Kathleen Peterson? by Tiddy Smith

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Death by Talons: Did An Owl 'Murder' Kathleen Peterson?

By: Tiddy Smith

4.07

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

An Outrageous Theory For Murder! On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bo…

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1. Final Vows

By: Karen Kingsbury

3.83

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

An account of the murder of an ex-con's wife describes how an educated, religious woman met, fell i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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2. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

By: Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. To the Last Breath

By: Carlton Stowers

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

Three determined women--a grandmother, a mother, and a police investigator--vow to avenge the murde… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

4. Ladder of Years

By: Anne Tyler

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Married with three almost-grown children, Delia Grinstead has vanished without trace or reason. But… read more

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5. Everything She Ever Wanted

By: Ann Rule

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER? OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER? For their wedding portrait, petite Pat … read more

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6. Farmer Boy (Little House, #3)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing--his very own… read more

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7. Saint Maybe

By: Anne Tyler

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the… read more

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8. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. 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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10. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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11. American Mother: The True Story of a Troubled Family, Motherhood and the Cyanide Poisonings That Shook the World

By: Gregg Olsen

3.55

Format: 497 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 bestselling author comes the shocking true-crime story of a mother and wife, her distur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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12. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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14. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. Murder Outside the Back Door

By: John Tommasi

4.00

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

Greed, arrogance and lust led Robert Anderson to kill his wife of nearly twenty years. He was a pil… read more

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  • true crime
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16. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer

By: Liza Rodman

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, whil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden

By: Michael Brodkorb

3.70

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

On the evening of April 19, 2013, Samantha and Gianna Rucki disappeared. Two of five children born … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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19. An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville

By: Michael Glasgow

4.11

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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20. Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories

By: Fiona Sze-Lorrain

3.56

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, a startling and vivid debut novel… read more

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21. LOU AND JONBENÉT: A Legendary Lawman’s Quest To Solve A Child Beauty Queen’s Murder

By: John Wesley Anderson

3.74

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

On Christmas Night 1996 , six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in her family’s home in Boulder… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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22. Drive: Stories from Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere

By: Sharon Wheatley

4.30

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

A Broadway actress and her family go on a cross-country adventure during the COVID-19 shutdown D… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Without a Trace: 1970-2016

By: Sylvia Wrigley

4.05

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in 2014 is considered the greatest aviation myste… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Small Towns, Dark Secrets: Social media, reality TV and murder in rural America (Tangled Webs True Crime)

By: Eileen Ormsby

3.63

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

Two true tales of small-town murders How a social media feud led to a double homicideWhen the bodie… read more

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  • true crime
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25. Death by Talons: Did An Owl 'Murder' Kathleen Peterson?

By: Tiddy Smith

4.07

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

An Outrageous Theory For Murder! On December 9, 2001, Kathleen Peterson was found dead at the bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. The Raven's Eye Runaways

By: Claire Mabey

4.40

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, beautifully-told fantasy quest set in a parallel medieval world.Three young people and … read more

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27. Mindful Magnetic Woman: Understanding the Levels of Real Attractiveness To Maximize Your Inner and Outer Glow

By: Brigitta Békési

4.00

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

Whether it’s the latest fashion and beauty trend or the next fitness and diet trick, we often striv… read more

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28. The Story of a Thief

By: Hristina Bloomfield

3.75

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

The Story of a Thief Tony was born into a family of thieves. His life seems predestined, until h… read more

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29. Travel to Transform

By: Freeman Fung

4.47

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Guidebooks are for tourists and self-help books are for internal journeys. But what about the perso… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is an outward journey to travel to better understand the outside world. and an equally significant inward journey to upgrade the depths of our mind, body, and spirit. There’s simultaneously an …"

-Freeman Fung, Travel to Transform

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30. Startup Dot Love: An IT-Novel About Love, Startups and the Golden Gate Bridge

By: Roman Savin

4.14

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Startup Dot Love is a white-knuckle ride into the wilderness of Silicon Valley. You may wish to fee… read more

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31. Death as a Living: Investigating Murder in the American Heartland

By: Doyle Burke

4.44

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

One of the Midwest’s most accomplished homicide detectives reveals the secrets behind his most noto… read more

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  • true crime

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Karen Kingsbury

3.83

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4.55

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Carlton Stowers

4.20

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3.49

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Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

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Edward Bellamy , Walter James Miller

3.99

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Yiyun Li

3.75

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Elisa Shua Dusapin

3.49

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