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101.
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
by:
Peter Vronsky
3.83 avg rating — 2,029 ratings
102.
Cruel Doubt
by:
Joe McGinniss
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,730 ratings
103.
In Broad Daylight
by:
Harry N. MacLean
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
104.
Blood and Money
by:
Thomas Thompson
4.09 avg rating — 5,655 ratings
105.
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
by:
Jeff Guinn
4.16 avg rating — 18,743 ratings
106.
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor
by:
Christine McGuire
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,518 ratings
107.
No Stone Unturned: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
by:
Steve Jackson
4.22 avg rating — 4,024 ratings
108.
Obsession
by:
John E. Douglas
3.98 avg rating — 3,733 ratings
109.
Tears of Rage
by:
John Walsh
4.26 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
110.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by:
Patrick Radden Keefe
4.47 avg rating — 149,088 ratings
111.
A Stolen Life
by:
Jaycee Dugard
3.96 avg rating — 141,507 ratings
112.
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
by:
Ronan Farrow
4.40 avg rating — 101,064 ratings
113.
Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups
by:
Richard Belzer
3.66 avg rating — 736 ratings
114.
The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison
by:
Pete Earley
4.13 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
115.
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
by:
Val McDermid
4.10 avg rating — 12,182 ratings
116.
Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door
by:
Roy Wenzl
4.04 avg rating — 9,111 ratings
117.
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
by:
Jeff Guinn
3.94 avg rating — 10,997 ratings
118.
Lust Killer
by:
Ann Rule
4.05 avg rating — 7,697 ratings
119.
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
by:
Johann Hari
4.50 avg rating — 21,100 ratings
120.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town : The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth
by:
Lawrence Schiller
3.67 avg rating — 3,685 ratings
121.
The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
by:
Judy Shepard
4.35 avg rating — 2,491 ratings
122.
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
by:
David King
3.54 avg rating — 8,101 ratings
123.
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
by:
Nick Bilton
4.41 avg rating — 50,882 ratings
124.
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.76 avg rating — 2,045 ratings
125.
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by:
Michael Newton
4.16 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
126.
Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang
by:
T.J. English
3.94 avg rating — 406 ratings
127.
Bogeyman - He Was Every Parent's Nightmare
by:
Steve Jackson
3.95 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
128.
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
by:
Mamie Till-Mobley
4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
129.
Murder in Italy: Amanda Knox, Meredith Kercher and the Murder Trial that Shocked the World
by:
Candace Dempsey
3.77 avg rating — 659 ratings
130.
Predator
by:
Jack Olsen
4.02 avg rating — 966 ratings
131.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by:
Bryan Stevenson
4.63 avg rating — 254,511 ratings
132.
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by:
Elissa Wall
3.95 avg rating — 31,195 ratings
133.
The End of the Dream: The Golden Boy Who Never Grew Up (Crime Files, #5)
by:
Ann Rule
4.15 avg rating — 4,554 ratings
134.
Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
by:
Wensley Clarkson
3.86 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
135.
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial
by:
Rabia Chaudry
4.12 avg rating — 10,806 ratings
136.
Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right
by:
Barry Scheck
4.15 avg rating — 899 ratings
137.
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.98 avg rating — 336,806 ratings
138.
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind
by:
Roy Hazelwood
4.05 avg rating — 2,869 ratings
139.
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
by:
Andrea Lee Smith
4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
140.
True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
by:
James Renner
3.66 avg rating — 8,376 ratings
141.
The Whiskey Au Go Go Massacre: Murder, Arson and the Crime of the Century
by:
Geoff Plunkett
4.39 avg rating — 66 ratings
142.
Last Victim: A True-Life Journey into the Mind of a Serial Killer
by:
Jason M. Moss
3.86 avg rating — 5,315 ratings
143.
Fred & Rose
by:
Howard Sounes
4.04 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
144.
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
by:
Paul French
3.86 avg rating — 7,293 ratings
145.
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
by:
Ann Rule
4.06 avg rating — 8,048 ratings
146.
I: The Creation of a Serial Killer: The Creation of a Serial Killer
by:
Jack Olsen
3.92 avg rating — 2,693 ratings
147.
Cellar of Horror: The Story of Gary Heidnik
by:
Ken Englade
3.76 avg rating — 2,326 ratings
148.
At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice
by:
Rebecca Rosenberg
4.15 avg rating — 1,294 ratings
149.
Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders
by:
Kevin M. Sullivan
3.68 avg rating — 174 ratings
150.
Smooth Talker: Trail of Death
by:
Steve Jackson
4.04 avg rating — 335 ratings
151.
The Ultimate Evil
by:
Maury Terry
3.87 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
152.
Shot in the Heart
by:
Mikal Gilmore
4.18 avg rating — 3,796 ratings
153.
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder
by:
Charles Graeber
3.86 avg rating — 26,995 ratings
154.
The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
4.22 avg rating — 9,288 ratings
155.
The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
by:
Brian Masters
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,899 ratings
156.
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
by:
Gitta Sereny
3.88 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
157.
Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants
by:
Jeffrey J. Mariotte
4.06 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
158.
Serpico
by:
Peter Maas
4.01 avg rating — 3,531 ratings
159.
One of Your Own: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley
by:
Carol Ann Lee
4.20 avg rating — 1,405 ratings
160.
Love Her to Death
by:
M. William Phelps
4.05 avg rating — 1,275 ratings
161.
Murder in Brentwood
by:
Mark Fuhrman
3.82 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
162.
You Belong to Me and Other True Crime Cases (Crime Files, #2)
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 5,466 ratings
163.
Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by:
Rebecca Renner
3.80 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
164.
Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century
by:
Peter Graham
3.52 avg rating — 4,603 ratings
165.
On the Farm
by:
Stevie Cameron
4.13 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
166.
A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation
by:
Catherine Crier
4.07 avg rating — 2,999 ratings
167.
Serpentine : A True Odyssey of Love and Murderous Evil
by:
Thomas Thompson
4.21 avg rating — 1,638 ratings
168.
The Princes in the Tower
by:
Alison Weir
3.87 avg rating — 7,642 ratings
169.
Repeat Offender: Sin City's Most Prolific Criminal and the Cop Who Caught Him
by:
Bradley Nickell
4.07 avg rating — 174 ratings
170.
The True Crime Files of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.70 avg rating — 132 ratings
171.
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by:
Nate Blakeslee
4.12 avg rating — 831 ratings
172.
Heart Full of Lies
by:
Ann Rule
3.97 avg rating — 5,738 ratings
173.
Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder
by:
Steve Hodel
3.71 avg rating — 4,265 ratings
174.
Sun Goes Down: The True Story of the Harvey Family Murder, and an Inquiry into the True Crime Story, The Music Industry and the American Dream
by:
Chris Orlet
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
175.
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
by:
John E. Douglas
4.16 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
175.
Empty Promises and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #7)
by:
Ann Rule
3.99 avg rating — 3,097 ratings
177.
The Blooding
by:
Joseph Wambaugh
3.98 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
178.
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
179.
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
by:
Vincent Bugliosi
3.74 avg rating — 846 ratings
179.
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by:
Gerald Posner
4.03 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
181.
Zebra
by:
Clark Howard
4.04 avg rating — 203 ratings
182.
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter
by:
John E. Douglas
4.15 avg rating — 22,690 ratings
183.
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
by:
Brendan I. Koerner
4.04 avg rating — 4,289 ratings
184.
In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder
by:
Peter Maas
4.08 avg rating — 314 ratings
185.
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by:
Paul Holes
4.09 avg rating — 28,565 ratings
186.
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
by:
Harold Schechter
3.82 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
187.
Monster: My True Story
by:
Aileen Wuornos
3.50 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
187.
Before He Wakes
by:
Jerry Bledsoe
4.05 avg rating — 2,805 ratings
189.
Lords of Chaos
by:
Michael Moynihan
3.68 avg rating — 8,664 ratings
190.
Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti
by:
Gene Mustain
3.70 avg rating — 559 ratings
191.
Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind Thirty-Year of Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer
by:
John E. Douglas
3.95 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
192.
The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
by:
Harold Schechter
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,447 ratings
192.
The Want-Ad Killer
by:
Ann Rule
3.92 avg rating — 6,961 ratings
194.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: An American Nightmare
by:
Don Davis
3.84 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
195.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
by:
Jeff Hobbs
4.14 avg rating — 28,257 ratings
196.
Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science
by:
William M. Bass
4.23 avg rating — 7,820 ratings
197.
The Man With The Candy: The Story of The Houston Mass Murders
by:
Jack Olsen
3.81 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
198.
Kiss Me, Kill Me and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #9)
by:
Ann Rule
3.94 avg rating — 3,430 ratings
198.
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters
by:
Peter Langman
3.84 avg rating — 1,466 ratings
200.
The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession
by:
David Grann
3.79 avg rating — 9,867 ratings
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