Best True Crime Books
2. 
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by:
Tim Butcher
3.81 avg rating — 4,036 ratings 
4. 
The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: Murder, Arson and the Crime of the Century
by:
Geoff Plunkett
4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings 5. 
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
by:
James Renner
3.66 avg rating — 8,374 ratings 5. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,004 ratings 
8. 
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
4.06 avg rating — 152,013 ratings 
11. 
Between Good and Evil: A Master Profiler's Hunt For Society's Most Violent Predators
by:
Roger L. Depue
3.78 avg rating — 620 ratings 11. 
Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
by:
Susan Elmore
3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings 
11. 
Madmen’s Manifestos: Chris Dorner, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh and others
by:
Grigory Lukin
2.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 11. 
To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
by:
Robert Uttaro
4.03 avg rating — 184 ratings 11. 
11. 
The New York Ripper: The True Story of Serial Killer Richard Cottingham
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.23 avg rating — 66 ratings 11. 
The Shooting of Nancy Howard: A Journey Back to Shore
by:
Dr Alice Mathews
4.16 avg rating — 56 ratings 11. 
Anatomy of a False Confession: The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassey 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and A 15-Year Search for Truth
by:
Scott James
4.25 avg rating — 845 ratings 11. 
The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge
by:
Mitzi Szereto
3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings 11. 
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by:
Jodi Kantor
4.34 avg rating — 43,155 ratings 23. 
Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
by:
Shane O'Sullivan
4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings 23. 
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
4.13 avg rating — 5,912 ratings 23. 
Relentless Pursuit: Inside the Escape from Dannemora New York State's Largest Manhunt
by:
Charles E. Guess
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings 
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The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
by:
Dan Slepian
4.47 avg rating — 2,410 ratings 
29. 
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.83 avg rating — 2,029 ratings 29. 
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
by:
John Glatt
3.93 avg rating — 3,493 ratings 
32. 
A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
by:
Kim Mager
3.80 avg rating — 1,530 ratings 34. 
34. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,458 ratings 36. 
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
by:
Ann Rule
4.02 avg rating — 3,158 ratings 37. 
Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916
by:
Mike Richards
3.25 avg rating — 20 ratings 
39. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
39. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,037 ratings 
43. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 
45. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 46. 
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
by:
Laura Thompson
3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings 
49. 
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
51. 
Shark Arm: A Shark, A Tattooed Arm and Two Unsolved Murders
by:
Phillip Roope
3.68 avg rating — 122 ratings 52. 
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
by:
Jeff Guinn
4.04 avg rating — 3,082 ratings