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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6515 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 259,265 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5729 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 714,590 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4379 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 109,772 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4055 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,270 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3876 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,566 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3533 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 430,702 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2696 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,477 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2504 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,410 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2275 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 46,567 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2127 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 290,735 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1865 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,741 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1796 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 221,538 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1534 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 19,855 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1531 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 31,895 ratings — published 1987
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1469 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,942 ratings — published 2019
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1426 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.61 — 26,358 ratings — published 2013
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1411 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 153,237 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1361 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.41 — 277,665 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1351 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,966 ratings — published 1986
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1309 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,999 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1250 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 36,186 ratings — published 2008
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1148 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,065 ratings — published 2019
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1133 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,494 ratings — published 2002
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1104 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,813 ratings — published 2022
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1090 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,764 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1076 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 101,411 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1042 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,555 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1006 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,974 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 996 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 21,928 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 928 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,609 ratings — published 1983
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 922 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 25,886 ratings — published 2019
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 915 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 83,194 ratings — published 2006
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 890 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,702 ratings — published
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 884 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,149 ratings — published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 879 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,613 ratings — published 1992
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 839 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 57,997 ratings — published 2015
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 815 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.73 — 12,888 ratings — published 2020
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 814 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 75,474 ratings — published 2019
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 798 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,776 ratings — published 2008
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 795 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 11,993 ratings — published 1984
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 774 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,630 ratings — published 2010
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 772 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 142,661 ratings — published 2011
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 755 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,468 ratings — published 1991
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 733 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,804 ratings — published 1997
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 723 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,974 ratings — published 2018
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 716 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,520 ratings — published 2023
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 707 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,922 ratings — published 1979
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 692 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,248 ratings — published 2017
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 687 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.36 — 19,918 ratings — published 1991
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 683 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,261 ratings — published 1989
“He loses his power when we know his face.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
“I sat there in the lobby with a 7Up and a hog-tied Japanese nymphomaniac locked in my room”
― Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
― Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
