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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6582 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 262,125 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5789 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 723,075 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4423 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 111,178 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4103 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 752,458 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3913 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,482 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3572 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 439,664 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2722 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 81,005 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2526 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 101,742 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2313 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 47,818 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2151 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 293,578 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1912 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 348,571 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1819 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 223,796 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1545 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,170 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1541 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,185 ratings — published 1987
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1492 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,304 ratings — published 2019
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1436 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.61 — 26,614 ratings — published 2013
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1433 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 161,130 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1367 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.41 — 280,056 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1367 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,276 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 1326 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,220 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1254 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 36,526 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 1171 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,727 ratings — published 2019
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1138 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,637 ratings — published 2002
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1116 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,290 ratings — published 2022
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1098 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 16,904 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1080 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 102,001 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1053 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,716 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1019 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,394 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 995 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,092 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 937 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,688 ratings — published 1983
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 930 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,207 ratings — published 2019
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 924 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 83,941 ratings — published 2006
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 901 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 14,862 ratings — published
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 889 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,774 ratings — published 1992
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 886 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,503 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 850 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 58,500 ratings — published 2015
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 828 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,036 ratings — published 2020
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 810 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,892 ratings — published 2019
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 807 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 24,969 ratings — published 2008
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 807 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,162 ratings — published 1984
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 786 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 144,786 ratings — published 2011
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 779 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,971 ratings — published 2010
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 762 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 87,691 ratings — published 2023
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 762 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,608 ratings — published 1991
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 739 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,951 ratings — published 1997
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,777 ratings — published 2018
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 719 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,162 ratings — published 1979
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 702 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,845 ratings — published 1989
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 695 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,463 ratings — published 2017
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 695 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.36 — 20,108 ratings — published 1991
“You can lie through your teeth, but your teeth don't lie”
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“You gotta help me get out of here! Cut me loose! Cut me loose!
Well, Jerry, I gotta go to work, but I'll come back this afternoon and if you're not better, then we'll see about ... I'll see what I can do.
It'll be too late, Gamble. I'll be dead by then. Cut me loose! You gotta help me. You just gotta help me!”
― Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder
Well, Jerry, I gotta go to work, but I'll come back this afternoon and if you're not better, then we'll see about ... I'll see what I can do.
It'll be too late, Gamble. I'll be dead by then. Cut me loose! You gotta help me. You just gotta help me!”
― Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder
