Murder Memoirs
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
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Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,022 ratings 4. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the aftermath of the Columbine tragedy
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Sue Klebold
4.14 avg rating — 44,133 ratings 
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,243 ratings 9. 
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
by:
Diane McWhorter
4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings 
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Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them
by:
David L. Owen
3.86 avg rating — 409 ratings 14. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 
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Confederacy of Silence : A True Tale of the New Old South
by:
Richard Rubin
3.92 avg rating — 151 ratings 
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
by:
Helen Prejean
4.14 avg rating — 8,954 ratings 
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A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl
by:
Mariane Pearl
4.08 avg rating — 2,786 ratings 
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Murder on the Home Front: A True Story of Morgues, Murderers, and Mysteries During the London Blitz
by:
Molly Lefebure
3.61 avg rating — 881 ratings 
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Alone among the Living: A Memoir of the Floyd Hoard Murder
by:
G. Richard Hoard
4.21 avg rating — 39 ratings 33. 
Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer
by:
Lois Duncan
3.77 avg rating — 2,733 ratings 
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The Journey to Chatham: Why Emmett Till?s Murder Changed America, a personal story
by:
Arthur L. Miller
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The Jigsaw Man: The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist
by:
Paul Britton
4.28 avg rating — 3,561 ratings 
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The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death
by:
John Bateson
4.08 avg rating — 2,376 ratings 45. 
Nobody Walks: Bringing My Brother's Killers to Justice
by:
Dennis M. Walsh
3.81 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder
by:
Rachel Howard
3.76 avg rating — 176 ratings 47. 
The Final Beat: Gardai Who Died in the Line of Duty
by:
Liz Walsh
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating — 752 ratings 
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Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake-Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
by:
Dennis Covington
3.93 avg rating — 4,445 ratings 
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Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
by:
Shane O'Sullivan
4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings 56. 
Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty
by:
Scott Turow
3.84 avg rating — 750 ratings 
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Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
by:
Gideon Haigh
3.45 avg rating — 166 ratings 62. 
Shake the Devil Off: A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
by:
Ethan Brown
3.59 avg rating — 1,239 ratings 
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My Time With the Kings: A Reporter's Recollections of Martin, Coretta and the Civil Rights Movement
by:
Kathryn Johnson
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 68. 
Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland
by:
James St. James
4.07 avg rating — 9,526 ratings 68. 
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
by:
Laura Thompson
3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings 70. 
If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
by:
Janine Latus
3.51 avg rating — 7,829 ratings 
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The Stalking of Kristin: A Father Investigates the Murder of His Daughter
by:
George Lardner
3.35 avg rating — 94 ratings 
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The Hot One: A Memoir of Friendship, Sex, and Murder
by:
Carolyn Murnick
2.81 avg rating — 1,500 ratings 79. 
After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search
by:
Sarah Perry
4.15 avg rating — 5,238 ratings 80. 
And I Don't Want to Live This Life: A Mother's Story of Her Daughter's Murder
by:
Deborah Spungen
4.11 avg rating — 8,650 ratings 
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Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
by:
Pamela Everett
3.83 avg rating — 1,678 ratings 
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Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Search for My Brother's Killer
by:
Penny Farmer
4.06 avg rating — 1,214 ratings 89. 
The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing
by:
Betsy Bonner
3.58 avg rating — 1,016 ratings 
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A Life Divided: A psychologist's memoir about the double life and murder of her husband - and her road to recovery
by:
Jan Canty
4.16 avg rating — 146 ratings 