True Crime Reading Pile
2. 
Murder by Family: The Incredible True Story of a Son's Treachery and a Father's Forgiveness
by:
Kent Whitaker
3.65 avg rating — 776 ratings 3. 
The Missing Girls: A Shocking True Story of Abduction and Murder
by:
Rick Watson
3.54 avg rating — 590 ratings 4. 
Shadow Play: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
by:
William Klaber
4.02 avg rating — 120 ratings 
5. 
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
by:
John Glatt
3.78 avg rating — 3,445 ratings 
12. 
The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: Murder, Arson and the Crime of the Century
by:
Geoff Plunkett
4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings 
16. 
Talking with Serial Killers: The Most Evil People in the World Tell Their Own Stories 3.50 avg rating — 5,516 ratings
16. 
Nameless Indignities: Unraveling the Mystery of One of Illinois's Most Infamous Crimes
by:
Susan Elmore
3.88 avg rating — 94 ratings 16. 
Madmen’s Manifestos: Chris Dorner, Charles Manson, Timothy McVeigh and others
by:
Grigory Lukin
2.75 avg rating — 12 ratings 
16. 
Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by:
Dep Kirkland
3.57 avg rating — 112 ratings 16. 
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 
16. 
The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge
by:
Mitzi Szereto
3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings 
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals:
by:
Mitzi Szereto
3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings 27. 
Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
by:
John Glatt
3.93 avg rating — 3,493 ratings 
31. 
Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
by:
Shane O'Sullivan
4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings 
31. 
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 — 1,532 ratings 
35. 
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
by:
Andrea Dunlop
4.15 avg rating — 4,470 ratings 
37. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
39. 
They're Killing Our Children: Inside the Kidnapping & Child Murder Epidemic Sweeping America
by:
Michelle Caruso
3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings 
41. 
Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
by:
Peter Stanley
3.47 avg rating — 43 ratings 
44. 
Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
by:
Rebecca Godfrey
3.82 avg rating — 9,144 ratings 44. 
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 
48. 
Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
by:
Gideon Haigh
3.45 avg rating — 166 ratings 50. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 
53. 
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 54. 
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder at Road Hill House
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,680 ratings 
57. 
Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
60. 
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
by:
Lee Israel
3.24 avg rating — 4,305 ratings 
62. 
The Secret Art of Poisoning: The True Crimes of Martha Needle, the Richmond Poisoner
by:
Samantha Battams
3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings 
64. 
Shark Arm: A Shark, A Tattooed Arm and Two Unsolved Murders
by:
Phillip Roope
3.68 avg rating — 122 ratings 
67. 
Suburban Noir: Crime and mishap in the 1950s and 1960s Sydney
by:
Peter Doyle
3.62 avg rating — 88 ratings 69. 
Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne’s Most Notorious Cold Case
by:
Helen Thomas
3.65 avg rating — 515 ratings 70. 
Angels of Death: A True Story of Murder and Innocence Lost
by:
Gary C. King
3.67 avg rating — 94 ratings 70. 
Unmasking the Killer of the Missing Beaumont Children
by:
Stuart Mullins
3.91 avg rating — 164 ratings 
73. 
If You Really Loved Me: Two Teenage Girls and a Shocking Double Murder 3.35 avg rating — 111 ratings