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"

Family of Spies
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, An Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial That Changed Legal History
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
Lincoln's Ghost: Houdini's War on Spiritualism and the Dark Conspiracy Against the American Presidency
The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right
  • Death, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt Heycke
    Death, Taxes, and Turduckens: Unraveling History’s Biggest Tax Heist And the Broken System That Enabled It
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    Release date: Jul 19, 2025
    Amazon #1 Bestseller in White Collar Crime

    "A terrific example of thrilling narrative nonfiction." — Kirkus Reviews

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    Availability: 100 copies available, 429 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Nov 30 - Dec 07, 2025

    Countries available: U.S.

  • The Birdwatcher by Jacquelyn Mitchard
    The Birdwatcher
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    Release date: Dec 09, 2025
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    Availability: 10 copies available, 4383 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Nov 09 - Dec 09, 2025

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Through the Lens of a Monster by William A. Noguera
    Through the Lens of a Monster: A Serial Killer on Death Row, an Unsolved Murder List, and an Inmate’s Deadly Play for Redemption
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    Release date: Sep 16, 2025
    From San Quentin: Win Noguera’s memoir exposing serial killer Joseph Naso PLUS a rare signed card with his thumbprint and prison-born saying.
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    Availability: 15 copies available, 3428 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Nov 19 - Dec 10, 2025

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  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    The House of My Mother: A Daughter's Quest for Freedom
    Such Quiet Girls
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    All Good People Here
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    The Idaho Four: An American Tragedy
    The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
    Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
    Bright Young Women
    Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
    The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
    Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home
    Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
    Perfume by Patrick SüskindFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate SummerscaleCries Unheard by Gitta SerenyThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
    Bizarre Murders
    239 books — 89 voters
    Blacksad by Juan Díaz CanalesFatale, Vol. 1 by Ed BrubakerBatman by Jeph LoebAmerican Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott SnyderCriminal, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker
    Crime Comics & Graphic Novels
    231 books — 65 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
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Disappearing Spoon by Sam KeanThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum
    Modern Science Nonfiction
    421 books — 297 voters

    Columbine by Dave CullenCruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite JonesThe Sleep of Reason by David James SmithThe Case of Mary Bell by Gitta SerenyUnder the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
    Kids/Teens who kill
    81 books — 36 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)
    167 books — 70 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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