True Crime
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
4.06 avg rating — 152,005 ratings 3. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 108,998 ratings 
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.01 avg rating — 220,429 ratings 10. 
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by:
Mara Leveritt
4.16 avg rating — 12,417 ratings 
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by:
John Grisham
3.86 avg rating — 82,836 ratings 
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by:
John E. Douglas
4.09 avg rating — 78,644 ratings 18. 
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer 4.12 avg rating — 257,758 ratings
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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder
by:
Ann Rule
4.04 avg rating — 8,634 ratings 
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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
by:
Harold Schechter
3.92 avg rating — 9,197 ratings 26. 
Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
by:
Ann Rule
4.08 avg rating — 9,692 ratings 27. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,037 ratings 
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Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
by:
Jerry Bledsoe
4.04 avg rating — 10,138 ratings 
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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
by:
Harold Schechter
3.96 avg rating — 3,151 ratings 36. 
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer
by:
Philip Carlo
4.15 avg rating — 10,310 ratings 
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Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
4.13 avg rating — 5,912 ratings 
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Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups
by:
Richard Belzer
3.66 avg rating — 736 ratings 
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings 
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No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
by:
Steve Jackson
4.22 avg rating — 4,024 ratings 
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town : The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth 3.67 avg rating — 3,685 ratings
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True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders
by:
Dina Di Mambro
3.51 avg rating — 426 ratings 
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings 
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Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez
by:
Philip Carlo
4.02 avg rating — 14,619 ratings 
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Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden
by:
David Kent
3.88 avg rating — 221 ratings 62. 
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating — 57,730 ratings 
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Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne
by:
Burl Barer
3.71 avg rating — 104 ratings 65. 
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.83 avg rating — 2,028 ratings 
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The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: Murder, Arson and the Crime of the Century
by:
Geoff Plunkett
4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings 69. 
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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
by:
Harold Schechter
4.08 avg rating — 4,684 ratings 72. 
Kentucky Bloodbath: Ten Bizarre Tales of Murder from the Bluegrass State 3.65 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
by:
Ethan Brown
3.59 avg rating — 1,239 ratings 74. 
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
by:
James Renner
3.66 avg rating — 8,373 ratings 75. 
Serpentine : A True Odyssey of Love and Murderous Evil
by:
Thomas Thompson
4.21 avg rating — 1,637 ratings 76. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by:
Harold Schechter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,447 ratings 80. 
Body of Proof: Tainted Evidence In The Murder Of Jessica O'Grady?
by:
John Ferak
3.72 avg rating — 431 ratings 81. 
Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers
by:
Michael Connelly
3.39 avg rating — 5,991 ratings 82. 
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
by:
Judy Shepard
4.35 avg rating — 2,492 ratings 
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
by:
Harold Schechter
3.98 avg rating — 2,427 ratings 
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by:
Gerald Posner
4.03 avg rating — 2,216 ratings 
92. 
Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
by:
Bradley Nickell
4.07 avg rating — 174 ratings 
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The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer
by:
Robert D. Keppel
3.92 avg rating — 3,651 ratings 95. 
Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
by:
Edward Humes
4.01 avg rating — 968 ratings 
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Eating Smoke: One Man's Descent Into Crystal Meth Psychosis in Hong Kong's Triad Heartland
by:
Chris Thrall
3.60 avg rating — 771 ratings 
99. 
Alone With the Devil: Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist
by:
Ronald Markman
3.95 avg rating — 421 ratings 