Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books about true crimes
True Crime
Recommended books found: 47
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Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser
Hardcover: Jun 2025
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
by Candace Fleming
Hardcover: Apr 2025
How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced punch? From a master of narrative nonfiction comes a chilling chronicle of one of the most notorious ...
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A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
by Dean Jobb
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: May 2026
In this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the...
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Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
by Erika Krouse
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Mar 2023
Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open.
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Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
by Sarah Weinman
Hardcover: Feb 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him - including conservative thinker William F. Buckley - into helping set him free
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Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
by Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
Hardcover: Nov 2022
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio.
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The Buddhist on Death Row: How One Man Found Light in the Darkest Place
by David Sheff
Hardcover: Aug 2020
Paperback: Jun 2021
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America's most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.
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Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
by Eric Eyre
Hardcover: Mar 2020
Paperback: Apr 2021
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter from the smallest newspaper ever to win the prize in the investigative reporting category, an urgent, riveting, and heartbreaking investigation into the corporate greed that pumped millions of pain pills ...
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2021
The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it - an urgent work of literary journalism.
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Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
by Jerry Mitchell
Hardcover: Feb 2020
Paperback: Feb 2021
On June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the "Mississippi Burning" case, were among the most brazen acts of violence during the civil rights movement. And even though...
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The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
Hardcover: Jan 2020
Paperback: Jan 2021
A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community.
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou
Hardcover: May 2018
Paperback: Jan 2020
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO ...
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The Good Mothers: The Story of the Three Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia
by Alex Perry
Hardcover: Jun 2018
Paperback: Aug 2019
The electrifying, untold story of the women born into the most deadly and obscenely wealthy of the Italian mafias – and how they risked everything to bring it down.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Hardcover: Apr 2017
Paperback: Apr 2018
Winner of the 2017 BookBrowse Nonfiction Award
A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.
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While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness
by Eli Sanders
Hardcover: Feb 2016
Paperback: Feb 2017
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder - and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It ... Every Time
by Maria Konnikova
Hardcover: Jan 2016
Paperback: Jan 2017
An intriguing investigation into what makes a con artist, and why we continue to be duped by them.
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The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
by Piu Marie Eatwell
Hardcover: Oct 2015
Paperback: Sep 2016
One of the most notorious and bizarre mysteries of the Edwardian age, for readers who loved The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
by Jake Halpern
Hardcover: Oct 2014
Paperback: Oct 2015
A vital exposé that is also a bravura feat of storytelling.
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Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of a Plot to Poison the World's Greatest Wine
by Maximillian Potter
Hardcover: Jul 2014
Paperback: Jul 2015
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by Judith Flanders
Hardcover: Jul 2013
Paperback: Jul 2014
In this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction.
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