True Crime

True crime is a non-fiction literary genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people. The crimes most commonly include murder, but true crime works have also touched on other legal cases. Still others revisit historic crimes (or alleged crimes) and propose solutions, such as books examining political assassinations, well-known unsolved murders, or the deaths of celebrities.

New Releases Tagged "True Crime"

Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City
Last Night in San Francisco: Tech's Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children
The Carpool Detectives: A True Story of Four Moms, Two Bodies, and One Mysterious Cold Case
  • My Sister's Daughter and Silent Echo by Liv Constantine
    My Sister's Daughter and Silent Echo: Two Thrillers
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    Release date: Nov 11, 2025
    From the New York Times –bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish comes two page-turning domestic thriller novellas.

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    Giveaway dates: Aug 17 - Sep 06, 2025

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  • Zenith Man by McCracken Poston Jr.
    Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom
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    Release date: Feb 20, 2024
    An award-winning bestselling true story. We're giving away 10 copies of this book, 2nd printing, personalized (if you wish) and signed by the author, ...more
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 5077 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Aug 27 - Sep 08, 2025

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  • Cult of John by Michael Bailot
    Cult of John: The Secret Life of João de Deus, Spiritual Healer and Serial Rapist
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    Release date: May 15, 2025
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 753 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Aug 12 - Sep 10, 2025

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  • The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
    The First Witch of Boston
    Such Quiet Girls
    All Good People Here
    Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    The Art Thief
    Bright Young Women
    The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
    The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
    Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    This Book Will Bury Me
    Wrong Place Wrong Time by David P. PerlmutterNo Time for Goodbye by Linwood BarclayBlood Wounds by Susan Beth PfefferAm I Free To Go? by Kathryn CramerEvery Parent's Nightmare by Belinda Hawkins
    Wrong Place Wrong Time
    25 books — 17 voters
    The Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleNight Stalker by Philip CarloGreen River, Running Red by Ann RuleThe Serial Killer Files by Harold SchechterMind Hunter by John E. Douglas
    Non-fiction books about Serial Killers
    148 books — 159 voters

    The Wars of the Roses by Dan JonesIsabella by Kirstin DowneyEveryday Life in Medieval London by Toni MountNapoleon by Andrew RobertsBlood Royal by Eric Jager
    History Books 2014
    127 books — 139 voters
    Paper Towns by John GreenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury1984 by George OrwellThe Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
    Missing persons/disappearance/absence
    203 books — 48 voters

    Detroit by Charlie LeDuffMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliOnce In A Great City by David Maraniss
    Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)
    165 books — 69 voters
    Hawke's Point by Mark WillenThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonThe Deep Lake by Vitor M.C. RodriguesThe Blue Horse by Bruce BorgosPride or Die by CL Montblanc
    2025 Mystery Thrillers True Crime
    65 books — 72 voters

    I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
    In Cold Blood
    The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
    The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
    Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
    Columbine
    American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
    Green River, Running Red
    Small Sacrifices
    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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