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The True Crime Dictionary: From Alibi to Zodiac: The Ultimate Collection of Cold Cases, Serial Killers and More

Amanda Lees ed.

Murder Interrupted: True Crime Thrillers

James Patterson

Murder Beyond the Grave: True Crime Thrillers

James Patterson

Ripped from the Headlines: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes

Harold Schechter

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

Sarah Weinman ed.

The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns

Mitzi Szereto ed.

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

Sam Kean

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors: And Other True Cases

Ann Rules

She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women

Jennifer Wright

Murder of Innocence: True Crime Thrillers

James Patterson

But I Trusted You: And Other True Cases

Ann Rules

The Last Book On the Left: Stories of Murder and Mayhem from History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

Ben Kissel

Serial Killers of the '70s: Stories Behind a Notorious Decade of Death

Jane Fritsch

How To Catch a Killer: Hunting and Capturing the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers

Katherine Ramsland

A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury

The True Crime File: Serial Killers, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors, & Their Stories, Forensics, Oddities, & Absurdities, Quote, & Quizzes

Kimberly Day

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

Atlas of True Crime: A Worldwide Guide to Murderers & Thieves, Kidnappers & Con Men

Nancy J. Hajeski

Family, Friends, and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal

Richard Estep

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Sarah Weinman

Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

Max Cutler

The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

Benjamin Gilmer

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

Harold Schechter

At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten Year War for Justice

Rebecca Rosenberg & Selim Algar

Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

Mikita Brottman

Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

John Glatt

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green

The Stranger Beside Me: The Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy

Ann Rule

The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and the Shocking Murder

John Glatt

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer

Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz

The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell

Barry Levine

My Sweet Angel: The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son In Cold Blood

John Glatt

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Hunter S. Thompson

Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal

Ann Rule

Don't Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM

Sarah Berman

Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team That Brought Him to Justice

Charlotte Bismuth

Madoff: The Final Word

Richard Behar

Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America

James Polchin

A Gentleman and a Thief: The Darling Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

Dean Jobb

The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

Rick Jervis

The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

Valerie Bauerlein

Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

Yepoka Yeebo

The Serial Killers Apprentice: The True Story of How Houston's Deadliest Murderer Turned a Kid Into a Killing Machine

Katherine M. Ramsland

The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery

Stephen Bates

From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West

Heidi Blake

El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord

Noah Hurowitz

Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

Ian Urbina

Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Steve Murphy & Javier F. Pena

The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist

Anthony M. Amore

The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

Sally Denton

 

Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt, and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

Liam Vaughan

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe & Matthew Blaney, et al.

Diana: Case Solved: The Definitive Account That Proves What Really Happened

Dylan Howard & Colin McLaren

The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search For Justice

Vanessa Brown

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Jessica McDiarmid

El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzman

Alan Feuer

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Eugene Rogan

Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants

Jacob Kushner

The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

Patti McCracken

The Killing of Lord George: A Tale of Murder and Deceit in Edwardian England

Karl Shaw

 

Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

Jax Miller

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

Killer Triggers

Joe Kenda

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation

Erika Krouse

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice

Ellen McGarrahan

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

Paul Holes

Start By Believing: Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions That Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster

John Barr

Secrets of a Marine's Wife: A True Story of Marriage, Obsession, and Murder

Shanna Hogan

A Tangled Web: A Cyberstalker, a Deadly Obsession, and the Twisted Path to Justice

Leslie Rule 

Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

M. William Phelps

The Falcon: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

Joshua Hammer

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half of Century of Silence

Becky Cooper

There is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

The Waltman Murders: One Woman's Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy

Susan Clare Zalkind

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert's Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime

Doug Kari

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

John Grisham & Jim McCloskey

Swamp King: The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina & a Century of Backwoods Power

Jason Ryan

College Girl, Missing: The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

Shawn Cohen

Down the Hill: My Descent Into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendericks

The Boston Stranglers

Susan Kelly

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy

James Renner

While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

Kim Mager

Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

Sarah Gerard

 

Electronic Resources

The Secret

Deric Henderson

The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cases

Michael Capuzzo

Killer Charm: The Double Lives of Psychopaths

Linda Fairstein

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Terminal Spy: A True Story of Espionage, Betrayal, and Murder

Alan S. Cowell

The Telephone Booth Indian

A.J. Liebling

Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty Years Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

John Douglas

Never See Them Again

M. William Phelps

The Monster of Florence

Douglas Preston

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris

David King

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime

Val McDermid

Presumed Guilty: Casey Anthony: The Inside Story

Jose Baez

American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857

Sally Denton

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

Tom Wainwright

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Tom Kizzia

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Ben Macintyre

John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster

Sam L. Amirante

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Frank

Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown

Scott D. Seligman

Watch Mommy Die

Michael Benson

Tangled Webs: How False Statements are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff

James B. Stewart

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

John Grisham

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa

Charles Brandt

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

 

How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft

Edward Jay Epstein

 

The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Simon Baatz

Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

Mark Schultz

Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found

Gilbert King

The Ingenious Mr. Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy

Henry Hemming

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

James Patterson

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

ZeroZeroZero: Look at Cocaine and All You See is Powder. Look Through Cocaine and You See the World

Roberto Saviano

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

Bradley Hope

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

Paul Collins

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Michael Connelly

The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case

Robert L. Shapiro

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed

Patricia Cornwell

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

Ben Mezrich

Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper

Geoffrey Gray

Operation Family Secrets: How a Mobster's Son and the FBI Brought Down Chicago's Murderous Crime Family

Frank Calabrese Jr.

The Art of Making Money: The Story of a Master Counterfeiter

Jason Kersten

Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933 - 34

Bryan Burrough

Overkill

Lyn Riddle

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgement of Mankind

Bruce Watson

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat In Japan

Jake Adelstein

Stolen World: a Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery

Jennie Erin Smith

The Profiler: My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths

Pat Brown

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

Jon Krakauer

Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang

William Queen

A Civil Action

Jonathan Harr

Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

Frank W. Abagnale

The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

Edward Ball

Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America

David Wise

 

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

Prophet's Prey: My Seven-Year Investigation Into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

Sam Brower

The Monster of Florence

Douglas Preston

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensics Science

Douglas Starr

At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

William Rempel

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Bethany McLean

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

Patrick Radden Keefe

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Sheri Fink

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness

Neil Swidey

The First Family: Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia

Mike Dash

Green River, Running Red

Ann Rule

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Tom Kizzia

Filthy Rich: A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

James Patterson

A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

Kim Mager

Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI

Robert K. Ressler

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer

The Goldman Family & Pablo F. Fenjves

Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Paris

Alex Kershaw

The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

Skip Hollandsworth

A Death in Belmont

Sebastian Junger

 

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson

Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony

Jeff Ashton

Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony: A Psychological Portrait

Keith Ablow

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

John Grisham

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Ben Macintyre

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Michael Connelly

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

Rosemary Sullivan

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

Bill O'Reilly

The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

John Glatt

My Story

Elizabeth Smart

Armed & Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted

William Queen

American Desperado: My Life - From Mafia Solider to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

Jon Roberts

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John E. Douglas

American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Maureen Callahan

Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Amanda Berry & Gina DeJesus

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper

Geoffrey Gary

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

Robert K. Wittman

Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency

Ronald Kessler

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology

Max Allen Collins

 

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Nick Bilton

The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

Sarah Weinman

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

Jeffrey Toobin

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

Jodi Kantor

Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home

Judy Christie

The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

John E. Douglas

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

Ben Mezrich

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush

Howard Blum

The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

Edward Ball

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Casey Cep

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Cara Robertson

Son of a Gun: A Memoir

Justin St. Germain

The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

Alex Marzano - Lesnevich

All-American Murder: The Rise and Fall of Aaron Hernandez, the Superstar Whose Life Ended on Murderers' Row

James Patterson

The Rising: Murder, Heartbreak, and the Power of Human Resilience in an American Town

Ryan D'Agostino

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Sue Klebold

Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold

Mark Schultz

The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

Kai Bird

Echoes of My Soul

Taber Burns

Gangster Squad: Covert Cops, the Mob, and the Battle for Los Angeles

Paul Lieberman

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

Richard Lloyd Parry

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape In History

Margalit Fox

Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa

R.A. Scottie

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

Murder Beyond the Grave: James Patterson's Murder Is Forever

James Patterson

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial

Rabia Chaudry

 

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