46 Gripping True Crime Books from the Last 54 Years
The truth is more terrifying than fiction.
Promoted by Open Road Media | By
Sarah Mangiola | Updated Jun 11, 2019 | Published Nov 21, 2017 
In Cold Blood
By Truman Capote
Helter Skelter
By Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
Blood and Money
By Thomas Thompson
The Michigan Murders
By Edward Keyes
Closing Time
By Lacey Fosburgh
A Death in Canaan
By Joan Barthel
The Executioner’s Song
By Norman Mailer
Serpentine
By Thomas Thompson
The Stranger Beside Me
By Ann Rule
Fatal Vision
By Joe McGinniss
Evidence of Love
By John Bloom and Jim Atkinson
The Hillside Stranglers
By Darcy O'Brien
Zodiac
By Robert Graysmith
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Buried Dreams
By Tim Cahill
Brady and Hindley
By Fred Harrison
Bitter Blood
By Jerry Bledsoe
A Death in White Bear Lake
By Barry Siegel
Butcher, Baker
By Walter Gilmour and Leland E. Hale
Beyond Obsession
By Richard Hammer
Blood Echoes
By Thomas H. Cook
A Thirst for Blood
By Lt. Ray Biondi and Walt Hecox
Innocent Victims
By Scott Whisnant
A Dark and Bloody Ground
By Darcy O'Brien
The Crime of the Century
By Dennis L. Breo and William J. Martin
Above Suspicion
By Joe Sharkey
Killing Season
By Carlton Smith
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By John Berendt
Fred & Rose
By Howard Sounes
Mother's Day
By Dennis McDougal
The Night Stalker
By Philip Carlo
Die for Me
By Don Lasseter
The Wrong Man
By James Neff
The Devil in the White City
By Erik Larson
Under the Banner of Heaven
By Jon Krakauer
The Monster of Florence
By Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
For the Thrill of It
By Simon Baatz
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
By Kate Summerscale
People Who Eat Darkness
By Richard Lloyd Parry
Dear Dawn
By Aileen Wuornos
Lost Girls
By Robert Kolker
The Good Nurse
By Charles Graeber
John Christie of Rillington Place
By Jonathan Oates
Mystery on the Isles of Shoals
By J. Dennis Robinson
Getting Life
By Michael Morton
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
By Michelle McNamara
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