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Well-wrtten true crime
1.
In Cold Blood
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating — 710,371 ratings
2.
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
by:
John Glatt
3.78 avg rating — 3,443 ratings
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
by:
Jill Leovy
4.07 avg rating — 19,295 ratings
4.
My Dark Places
by:
James Ellroy
3.84 avg rating — 7,444 ratings
5.
Son
by:
Jack Olsen
4.01 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
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The Red Parts
by:
Maggie Nelson
4.04 avg rating — 9,593 ratings
7.
Murder In Spokane
by:
Mark Fuhrman
3.46 avg rating — 286 ratings
8.
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
by:
Robert Kolker
3.61 avg rating — 26,199 ratings
8.
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by:
Deborah Blum
4.01 avg rating — 36,514 ratings
8.
Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
by:
John Glatt
3.75 avg rating — 2,730 ratings
8.
The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
by:
Mitzi Szereto
3.31 avg rating — 305 ratings
12.
Strange Piece of Paradise: A Return to the American West To Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself
by:
Terri Jentz
3.75 avg rating — 2,077 ratings
12.
Columbine
by:
Dave Cullen
4.29 avg rating — 99,736 ratings
12.
Forensic History: Crimes, Frauds, and Scandals
by:
Elizabeth A. Murray
3.81 avg rating — 931 ratings
15.
Devil's Knot
by:
Mara Leveritt
4.16 avg rating — 12,417 ratings
15.
No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
by:
Steve Jackson
4.22 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
15.
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,465 ratings
18.
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
by:
Mamie Till-Mobley
4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
18.
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
by:
Val McDermid
4.10 avg rating — 12,181 ratings
20.
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
by:
Laura Thompson
3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings
21.
People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman
by:
Richard Lloyd Parry
3.79 avg rating — 22,905 ratings
21.
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings
23.
The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder
by:
Rachel Howard
3.76 avg rating — 176 ratings
24.
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
by:
Laura Tillman
3.35 avg rating — 1,171 ratings
25.
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
by:
James Renner
3.66 avg rating — 8,376 ratings