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
Death, Taxes, and Turduckens: Unraveling History’s Biggest Tax Heist and the Broken System That Enabled It
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    Convergence
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  • A Killing in Cannabis by Scott Eden
    A Killing in Cannabis: A True Story of Love, Murder, and California Weed
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  • The Million-Dollar Car Detective by Stayton Bonner
    The Million-Dollar Car Detective: Inside the Worldwide Hunt for a Stolen $7 Million Car

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  • The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
    Such Quiet Girls
    All Good People Here
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
    The Art Thief
    The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
    Bright Young Women
    The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders
    The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
    The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
    Unspeakable Things
    The Immigrant by Nery McMahonThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyOur Matrix Decoded by Ramzi NajjarThe Art of Pushing Forward by Ramzi Najjar
    That's So True
    26 books — 45 voters

    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
    Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Trigger by Tim ButcherMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteThe Tudors by G.J. Meyer
    Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
    182 books — 116 voters

    American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    Most Messed Up
    829 books — 508 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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