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True Crime Books Worth Losing Sleep Over 🔪📚
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This book captured me and wouldn’t let me go. I had just finished reading a book that was mostly about Truman Capote, so decided to get one of his. WOW..it was a masterpiece like the other book claimed.
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
This book.... I am absolutely enthralled with this book. “I’ll be Gone in the Dark,” by Michelle McNamara has me completely over the edge. In my opinion, she may have been the best true crime writer I’ve ever read. Her unique style of writing makes t...
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Search
A fascinating glimmer as to ever present evil in our culture. She writes in a way that is captivating yet not over the top with gory details. She talks about her goal to save lives, I think this takes at least a major step in that direction.
She re...
The Stranger Beside Me: Rule, Ann
The book is a fascinating and detailed true-crime read that kept me engaged from beginning to end. The pages were clean, and the binding held up well. A great addition to any true crime collection!
Helter Skelter: True Story of Manson Murders
Loved this book! So worth the read and very nice insight to the FBI side of things. If you read this book with or next to "Ann Rule - The Stranger Beside Me" oooooh it makes a great longer gap filling story! Can see two sides of things from personal ...<3 You are in for a fun and wild ride if you read all three of these together!
Mindhunter: Inside FBI's Elite Serial Unit
This is a fascinating yet deeply disturbing multi-layered account of how greed drove men to murder and of how a combination of uncaring and sloppy police work allowed them to almost escape justice. Truth be told, it was the dogged efforts of one man,...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders
Fabulous book. Both the history of the Chicago fair and the murders was enlightening. I have already purchased another of his books!
The Devil in the White City: Murder & Madness
What a wonderful story. It elicits so many emotions. It's entertaining, funny, incredulous, odd, maddening. And it's based on a true story in our United States. So interesting!!!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
While dealing with an area most of us are not familiar with Lloyd parry has done. A brilliant job of making not only the horror of the story but also the strangeness of Japan the book brings it alive .makes the people very human and sympathetic.Looki...
People Who Eat Darkness: Murder & Grief in Japan
I love true crime - this book was written so well I struggled to put it down! Maureen does a great job telling this mostly unknown story.
American Predator: Hunt for Meticulous Serial Killer
A deep dive into psychopath's, Edwin “Ned” Snelgrove, mind. Ed shocked everyone by pleading guilty to attacking Mary Renard and the 1983 murder of college girlfriend Karen Osmun. While in prison, he was obsessed with Ted Bundy and became his idol. Ph...
I'll Be Watching You: Phelps, M. William
As has been noted in quite a few reviews for "If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood," this is a book that is simultaneously a rather brutal read yet also a remarkably compelling one.
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, an…
I absolutely love this book and wish I could give it the ten stars it deserves. I couldn't put it down until the last page was turned. I love how Alexandria writes....her descriptions, emotional verbiage and her ability to make me feel like I was ins...
The Fact of a Body
A Tangled Web is an excellent true crime book. Leslie Rule may well have proven she is as talented a writer as her mother, Ann Rule. She is able to take very tangled crimes and unwind it enough for the reader to grasp how evil the crimes were. I am v...
A Tangled Web: Cyberstalker, Deadly Obsession
Wow, this book was really in-depth and gave you a look at the girls' lives, theories, and information about the timeline and area where the bodies were discovered. I like that this book made each of these girls a real person and gave us a story of th...
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery - Books
Format: Kindle
An awesome read, and thank you to the author for the dedication, time and sensitive written approach that was given to the memories of the victims of JTR. I enjoyed reading this book so much. It was a nonstop marathon page turner read ...
The Five: Untold Lives of Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Complete and full description of the crime and all related to it. A lot of details about almost every topic. A full experience to those who loves true story books
Columbine - Cullen, Dave:
Job Krakauer's best book (and I've read them all). Fascinating, welk written, informative - I plan on reading it again - and I normally never read a book twice. I can't rate this book highly enough
Under the Banner of Heaven: Violent Faith
A gripping and emotional true crime story that is both heartbreaking and hard to put down. It gives a detailed look at the case and the investigation, but the subject matter is very dark and unsettling.
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule
The author never fails to impress me with her attention to detail and compassion for the victims. In this book, I was most impressed by the care and attention provided by the investigators over the course of two decades. The author explained every tw...
Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of ...
This riveting true crime book should be read by everyone in America, and I don't say that lightly. To me, the most frightening part of the story is that none of the hospital administrators and executives were ever punished for enabling probably hundr...
The Good Nurse | Charles Graeber