Edgar Award Winners - Fact Crime

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders 4.06 avg rating — 152,006 ratings
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In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,324 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,739 ratings
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Columbine
Columbine 4.29 avg rating — 99,720 ratings
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 4.14 avg rating — 425,920 ratings
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Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy
Reclaiming History – The Assassination of John F Kennedy 4.11 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets 4.36 avg rating — 19,837 ratings
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In Broad Daylight
In Broad Daylight really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,470 ratings
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President 4.22 avg rating — 81,268 ratings
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece 3.77 avg rating — 3,218 ratings
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer 4.16 avg rating — 34,157 ratings
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Fire Lover: A True Story
Fire Lover: A True Story 3.74 avg rating — 2,533 ratings
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Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir By The Other Son
Son of a Grifter: The Twisted Tale of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the Most Notorious Con Artists in America: A Memoir By The Other Son 3.88 avg rating — 768 ratings
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To the Last Breath: Three Women Fight for the Truth Behind a Child's Tragic Murder
To the Last Breath: Three Women Fight for the Truth Behind a Child's Tragic Murder 4.13 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, And Justice In A Southern Town 4.29 avg rating — 208 ratings
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Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell
Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell 3.92 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder
In a Child's Name: The Legacy of a Mother's Murder 4.08 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery
Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery 4.05 avg rating — 2,698 ratings
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Blood and Money
Blood and Money 4.09 avg rating — 5,653 ratings
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood 3.63 avg rating — 5,106 ratings
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The Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler 3.73 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War 3.75 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China 3.86 avg rating — 7,295 ratings
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Gideon's Trumpet
Gideon's Trumpet 3.91 avg rating — 3,034 ratings
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Death and the Supreme Court
Death and the Supreme Court 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity 4.06 avg rating — 460 ratings
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The Overbury Affair
The Overbury Affair 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century 3.51 avg rating — 3,044 ratings
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Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice
Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice 3.80 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Black Mass
Black Mass
by: Dick Lehr
3.81 avg rating — 8,475 ratings
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Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder
Blind Eye: The Terrifying Story of a Doctor Who Got Away with Murder 3.84 avg rating — 2,128 ratings
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The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science
The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stake Science 4.13 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers : Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women
Power to Hurt: Inside a Judge's Chambers : Sexual Assault, Corruption, and the Ultimate Reversal of Justice for Women 4.05 avg rating — 56 ratings
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To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams
To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick
Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick 4.25 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Town
Swift Justice: Murder & Vengeance In A California Town 4.28 avg rating — 169 ratings
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The CBS Murders
The CBS Murders 3.81 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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Careless Whispers
Careless Whispers 4.20 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
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Savage Grace
Savage Grace 3.50 avg rating — 779 ratings
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Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings
Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings 4.30 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Night Fell on Georgia
Night Fell on Georgia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower
Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower 3.75 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Vatican Connection
The Vatican Connection 3.80 avg rating — 296 ratings
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The Sting Man
The Sting Man 3.60 avg rating — 328 ratings
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A True Deliverance
A True Deliverance it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage
The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship & Espionage 4.07 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity 3.89 avg rating — 9,085 ratings
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By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter
By Persons Unknown: The Strange Death of Christine Demeter 3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by: Eric Eyre
4.07 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York 3.84 avg rating — 10,127 ratings
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A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt
A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt 3.97 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Legacy of death
Legacy of death 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving Affair
Hoax: The Inside Story of the Howard Hughes-Clifford Irving Affair 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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A great fall,
A great fall, 3.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Case That Will Not Die: Commonwealth Vs. Sacco and Vanzetti
The Case That Will Not Die: Commonwealth Vs. Sacco and Vanzetti 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind "The Mystery of Marie Roget" 3.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight
A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight 3.70 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation 4.23 avg rating — 833 ratings
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The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer 3.48 avg rating — 6,558 ratings
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Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully 3.23 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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The Deed
The Deed 4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Tragedy in Dedham: The story of the Sacco-Vanzetti case
Tragedy in Dedham: The story of the Sacco-Vanzetti case 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Fire at Sea: The Mysterious Tragedy of the Morro Castle
Fire at Sea: The Mysterious Tragedy of the Morro Castle 4.03 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Women Who Died in the Chair
Women Who Died in the Chair liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Big City Crimes
Big City Crimes 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Dead and Gone: Classic Crimes of North Carolina
Dead and Gone: Classic Crimes of North Carolina 3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Girl With The Scarlet Brand
The Girl With The Scarlet Brand it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Why Did They Kill?
Why Did They Kill? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Court of the Last Resort
The Court of the Last Resort 3.84 avg rating — 182 ratings
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True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality
True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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12 Against Crime
12 Against Crime 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties
Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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12 Against the Law
12 Against the Law 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation 3.76 avg rating — 18,062 ratings