Intense True Crime Books
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
by:
Roberto Saviano
3.80 avg rating β 21,845 ratings 
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The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
by:
John Glatt
3.78 avg rating β 3,445 ratings 
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #12)
by:
Ann Rule
3.93 avg rating β 2,780 ratings 7. 
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by:
Bryan Burrough
3.98 avg rating β 6,026 ratings 7. 
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Driven West: Andrew Jackson's Trail of Tears to the Civil War
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A.J. Langguth
3.51 avg rating β 161 ratings 11. 
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
by:
Ann Rule
4.02 avg rating β 3,158 ratings 11. 
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology 3.43 avg rating β 679 ratings
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Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
by:
Susanne Reber
4.49 avg rating β 601 ratings 15. 
Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police
by:
Adolf Eichmann
4.24 avg rating β 70 ratings 15. 
Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice
by:
Ann Rule
4.10 avg rating β 10,752 ratings 15. 
The Big Book of Little Criminals: 63 True Tales of the World's Most Incompetent Jailbirds! (Factoid Books)
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DC Comics
3.82 avg rating β 112 ratings 18. 
The Nuremberg Trials: The Nazis and Their Crimes Against Humanity
by:
Paul Roland
3.98 avg rating β 1,324 ratings 18. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating β 9,037 ratings 18. 
The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
by:
James R. Green
4.33 avg rating β 569 ratings 18. 
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
by:
John Barylick
4.37 avg rating β 1,221 ratings 22. 
Last Suppers: A collection of final meals through the years
by:
Caroline West
3.37 avg rating β 57 ratings 
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating β 109,014 ratings 26. 
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by:
Steve Oney
4.07 avg rating β 474 ratings 
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Mary Flora Bell: The Horrific True Story Behind An Innocent Girl Serial Killer
by:
Nancy Veysey
3.55 avg rating β 969 ratings 30. 
Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America
by:
Laura Wexler
3.99 avg rating β 369 ratings 30. 
Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
by:
Scott James
4.25 avg rating β 846 ratings 33. 
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
by:
John Hendrix
4.43 avg rating β 4,509 ratings 
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Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by:
Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating β 15,752 ratings 33. 
Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
by:
Hal Gold
3.87 avg rating β 923 ratings 37. 
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland 4.11 avg rating β 22,320 ratings
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Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by:
Gitta Sereny
3.88 avg rating β 1,719 ratings 37. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating β 81,280 ratings 37. 
Girl Trouble: The True Saga of Superstar Gloria Trevi and the Secret Teenage Sex Cult That Stunned the World 3.71 avg rating β 141 ratings
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Chris & Nancy: The True Story of the Benoit Murder-Suicide and Pro Wrestling's Cocktail of Death
by:
Irvin Muchnick
3.42 avg rating β 286 ratings 44. 
Run For It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom
by:
Marcelo d'Salete
3.77 avg rating β 1,255 ratings 
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 426,059 ratings 48. 
Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle
by:
Alix Lambert
3.92 avg rating β 75 ratings 48. 
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by:
Jerry Mitchell
4.43 avg rating β 2,081 ratings 
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When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
by:
Curtis Wilkie
3.91 avg rating β 433 ratings 54. 
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
by:
Gavin de Becker
4.18 avg rating β 49,298 ratings 54. 
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia's Attack on the West
by:
Luke Harding
3.91 avg rating β 1,280 ratings 
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Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
by:
John Glatt
3.93 avg rating β 3,494 ratings 58. 
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by:
James L. Swanson
4.16 avg rating β 34,162 ratings 64. 
Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
by:
James St. James
4.07 avg rating β 9,525 ratings 64. 
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by:
Samantha Power
4.26 avg rating β 10,878 ratings 
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You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish
by:
Jimmy A. Lerner
3.93 avg rating β 789 ratings 68. 
The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
by:
Scott Zesch
4.01 avg rating β 67 ratings 70. 
Gangs and Their Tattoos: Identifying Gangbangers on the Street and in Prison
by:
Bill Valentine
3.87 avg rating β 61 ratings 
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Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
by:
William Queen
4.16 avg rating β 5,539 ratings 
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism 4.45 avg rating β 5,509 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating β 7,035 ratings
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Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring
by:
Richard Gergel
4.42 avg rating β 648 ratings 86. 
The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun
by:
Lisa Jardine
3.33 avg rating β 175 ratings 86. 
Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
by:
Selwyn Raab
4.14 avg rating β 6,318 ratings 88. 
Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine
by:
Mick Farren
3.75 avg rating β 93 ratings 88. 
Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
by:
Mab Segrest
3.78 avg rating β 187 ratings 
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The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
by:
Gene Roberts
4.21 avg rating β 1,624 ratings 
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating β 749 ratings
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction 4.02 avg rating β 53 ratings
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by:
Gerald Posner
4.03 avg rating β 2,217 ratings 
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