Best True Crime by Women
1. 
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by:
Rebecca Renner
3.80 avg rating — 3,059 ratings 2. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,003 ratings 3. 
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 4. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,773 ratings
5. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
6. 
Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
by:
Susanne Reber
4.49 avg rating — 601 ratings 
8. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,458 ratings 10. 
In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press 3.79 avg rating — 379 ratings
11. 
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder 3.74 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
12. 
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
by:
Emma Southon
4.08 avg rating — 5,630 ratings 
15. 
Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder - A Family Album
by:
Shana Alexander
3.65 avg rating — 384 ratings 15. 
My Daddy Is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer
by:
Lena Derhally
3.87 avg rating — 4,169 ratings 
18. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating — 8,099 ratings
23. 
The Final Beat: Gardai Who Died in the Line of Duty
by:
Liz Walsh
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 23. 
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 23. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 26. 
Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot
by:
Rebecca Burns
4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings 26. 
Such Good Boys: The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons and a Horrifying Murder
by:
Tina Dirmann
3.90 avg rating — 1,957 ratings 26. 
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder at Road Hill House
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings 
30. 
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
by:
Laura Wexler
3.99 avg rating — 369 ratings 30. 
Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer
by:
Lois Duncan
3.77 avg rating — 2,732 ratings 
30. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,037 ratings 34. 
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
by:
Karen Branan
3.53 avg rating — 250 ratings 34. 
36. 
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
by:
Ann Rule
4.02 avg rating — 3,158 ratings 
38. 
Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #12)
by:
Ann Rule
3.93 avg rating — 2,780 ratings 40. 
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
by:
Edna Buchanan
4.04 avg rating — 792 ratings 
42. 
Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers
by:
Marta McDowell
3.48 avg rating — 515 ratings 42. 
The End of the Dream: The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up (Crime Files, #5)
by:
Ann Rule
4.15 avg rating — 4,552 ratings 
44. 
Blood Brother: 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty
by:
Anne Bird
3.68 avg rating — 2,868 ratings 46. 
Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
by:
Mona Gable
3.53 avg rating — 1,080 ratings 47. 
An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
by:
Susan Wels
3.34 avg rating — 1,391 ratings 48. 
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
by:
Kathryn Miles
3.92 avg rating — 7,105 ratings 49. 
Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
by:
Lisa Belkin
3.74 avg rating — 941 ratings 50. 
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
by:
Rebecca Godfrey
3.82 avg rating — 9,142 ratings 51. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,274 ratings 52. 
The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York 3.72 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
53. 
Blood Feud: The Hatfields And The Mccoys: The Epic Story Of Murder And Vengeance
by:
Lisa Alther
3.36 avg rating — 1,224 ratings 54. 
Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences 3.93 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
55. 
Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago
by:
Gillian O'Brien
3.24 avg rating — 133 ratings 
57. 
Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California 3.83 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
58. 
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City
by:
Laura Tillman
3.35 avg rating — 1,171 ratings 59. 
Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
by:
Maryanne Vollers
3.96 avg rating — 264 ratings 60. 
Blood in the Soil: A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South
by:
Carole Townsend
3.55 avg rating — 137 ratings 61. 
62. 
The Daughters of Juárez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border
by:
Teresa Rodríguez
3.84 avg rating — 1,258 ratings 63. 
Killing the Poormaster: The Depression-Era Murder That Put America's Welfare System on Trial
by:
Holly Metz
3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings 64. 
The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
by:
Carolyn Murnick
2.81 avg rating — 1,499 ratings 65. 
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
by:
Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings 66. 
Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
by:
Tammy Mal
4.06 avg rating — 228 ratings 67. 
The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
by:
Leanda de Lisle
4.09 avg rating — 727 ratings 68. 
Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
by:
Karen L. Cox
3.56 avg rating — 431 ratings 69. 
Murder on Shades Mountain: The Legal Lynching of Willie Peterson and the Struggle for Justice in Jim Crow Birmingham 3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
70. 
The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
by:
Nikki Meredith
3.23 avg rating — 1,749 ratings 71. 
72. 
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
by:
Karen Abbott
3.70 avg rating — 6,825 ratings 73. 
74. 
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
75. 
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country 3.76 avg rating — 5,943 ratings
76. 
Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
by:
Mary Ella Engel
3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings 77. 
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI 3.66 avg rating — 10,272 ratings
78. 
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder, and a Small Town's Struggle for Redemption 3.84 avg rating — 268 ratings
79. 
Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.58 avg rating — 3,187 ratings 80. 
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
by:
Michela Wrong
4.42 avg rating — 1,276 ratings 81. 
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
by:
Nicole Eustace
3.61 avg rating — 1,127 ratings 82. 
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind 4.20 avg rating — 3,371 ratings
83. 
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
by:
Becky Cooper
3.73 avg rating — 12,817 ratings 84. 
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by:
Sarah Weinman
3.55 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 
86. 
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women 3.60 avg rating — 943 ratings
87. 
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 3.88 avg rating — 323 ratings
88. 
From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
by:
Heidi Blake
4.29 avg rating — 2,645 ratings 89. 
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins
by:
Annie Jacobsen
4.32 avg rating — 6,436 ratings 90. 
91. 
Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs
by:
Alexandra Chasin
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings 92. 
The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair 3.74 avg rating — 724 ratings
93. 
The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country's First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad
by:
Mari K. Eder
3.51 avg rating — 618 ratings 94. 
The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
by:
Renee Dudley
3.85 avg rating — 733 ratings 95. 
Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods
by:
Lyndsie Bourgon
3.71 avg rating — 1,242 ratings 96. 
Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
by:
Claire Harman
3.20 avg rating — 1,447 ratings 97. 
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank 3.91 avg rating — 226 ratings
98. 
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
by:
Rachel Monroe
3.70 avg rating — 6,048 ratings 99. 
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal 4.16 avg rating — 428 ratings
100. 
Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
by:
Kate Fazzini
3.18 avg rating — 426 ratings