The Most Jaw-Dropping True Crime Books of 2020
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The men and women in the pages of these 15 books sure do.
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Michael J. Seidlinger | Published Dec 3, 2020
Unspeakable Acts
By Sarah Weinman (Editor)
Notes on a Silencing
By Lacy Crawford
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
By Becky Cooper
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
By Mara Hvistendahl
Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer
By Carlos Busqued
America’s First Female Serial Killer
By Mary Kay McBrayer
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
By Emma Copley Eisenberg
Broken Faith: Inside The Word Of Faith Fellowship, One Of America’s Most Dangerous Cults
By Mitch Weiss And Holbrook Mohr
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
By Sierra Crane Murdoch
MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang
By Steven Dudley
The Sorrows of Mexico
By Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernández, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Sergio González Rodríquez, Marcela Turati, and Emiliano Ruiz Parra
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The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
By Mark Bowden
The Devil's Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California's Central Valley
By Jessica Garrison
The Cold Vanish
By Jon Billman
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Bird of American CSI
By Kate Winkler Dawson
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