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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6423 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 � 254,900 ratings � published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5590 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 � 702,592 ratings � published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4323 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 � 107,653 ratings � published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3970 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 � 730,548 ratings � published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3834 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 � 151,049 ratings � published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3458 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 � 416,163 ratings � published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2661 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 � 77,213 ratings � published 1995
Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2474 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 � 97,703 ratings � published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2230 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 � 44,725 ratings � published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2095 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 � 286,133 ratings � published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1807 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 � 300,231 ratings � published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1767 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 � 218,211 ratings � published 2003
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1514 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.25 � 31,584 ratings � published 1987
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1489 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 � 19,440 ratings � published 2004
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1442 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 � 62,661 ratings � published 2019
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1418 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.61 � 25,851 ratings � published 2013
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1374 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 � 141,082 ratings � published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1342 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.41 � 273,704 ratings � published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1341 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 � 26,537 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 1293 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 � 22,758 ratings � published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1220 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 � 35,750 ratings � published 2008
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1123 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 � 12,302 ratings � published 2002
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1121 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.15 � 22,066 ratings � published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1092 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 � 27,942 ratings � published 2022
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1075 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 � 16,574 ratings � published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1052 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 � 100,413 ratings � published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1035 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 � 16,334 ratings � published 2000
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 992 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.80 � 21,676 ratings � published 2017
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 974 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 � 18,263 ratings � published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 918 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 � 24,489 ratings � published 1983
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 903 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 � 82,050 ratings � published 2006
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 900 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 � 25,371 ratings � published 2019
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 875 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 � 14,466 ratings � published
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 872 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 � 26,692 ratings � published 2013
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 872 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 � 12,382 ratings � published 1992
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 827 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.73 � 12,687 ratings � published 2020
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 823 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 � 57,156 ratings � published 2015
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 801 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 � 74,717 ratings � published 2019
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 797 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 � 24,537 ratings � published 2008
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 780 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 � 11,228 ratings � published 1984
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 760 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 � 36,222 ratings � published 2010
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 748 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.96 � 139,009 ratings � published 2011
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 735 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 � 12,232 ratings � published 1991
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 719 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 � 10,575 ratings � published 1997
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 � 32,852 ratings � published 2018
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 704 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 � 22,565 ratings � published 1979
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 � 9,007 ratings � published 2017
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 684 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.36 � 19,670 ratings � published 1991
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 � 9,059 ratings � published 1989
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 667 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.81 � 13,966 ratings � published 2017
“The plain and perhaps regrettable fact is that it is part of the eternal human psyche and cycle for the normal individual to derive cathartic satisfaction and enjoyment from savouring the crimes of others, and from luxuriously dreaming of personally committing them. Similar cathartic satisfaction is afforded by contemplating the punishment of those who are caught. Nobody likes a loser and therefore we believe they get what they deserve. What do you believe you deserve for the undetected crimes and secret moral outrages you have committed in thought or action? Absolution?”
― The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis
― The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis
“I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.”
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