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True Crime Books

Real criminal cases, investigations, and forensics

8 books 8 authors
The Great New Zealand Robbery

The Great New Zealand Robbery

by Scott Bainbridge
True Crime
It should be remembered as New Zealand's answer to Britain's Great Train Robbery: in the dead of the night, robbers brok...
Allen & Unwin • 320 pg • 2017-07-26
The Black Dahlia Files

The Black Dahlia Files

by Donald H. Wolfe
True Crime
In 1946, Elizabeth Short traveled to Hollywood to become famous and see her name up in lights. Instead, the dark-haired ...
HarperCollins • 554 pg • 2022-03-08
The Idaho Murders

The Idaho Murders

by James Patterson
True Crime
Go behind the headlines with the gripping new true crime book from a bestselling author and an award-winning journalist,...
Random House • 401 pg • 2025-07-31
Blood Games

Blood Games

by Jerry Bledsoe
True Crime
After being assaulted in their North Carolina home with a knife and a baseball bat, wealthy Lieth von Stein lay dead and...
Onyx Books • 486 pg • 1992
Cape May Court House

Cape May Court House

by Lawrence Schiller
True Crime
No one in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, was surprised when Eric Thomas, a popular young doctor, sued the Ford Motor ...
Harper Collins • 388 pg • 2009-10-13
Daisy de Melker

Daisy de Melker

by Ted Botha
True Crime
Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and tw...
Jonathan Ball Publishers • 365 pg • 2023-04-26
Catch and Kill

Catch and Kill

by Ronan Farrow
True Crime
Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Blo...
Little, Brown • 418 pg • 2019-10-15
Murder at 75 Birch

Murder at 75 Birch

by Richard T. Pienciak
True Crime
Revealing the truth behind a shocking story of family anger, the author of Deadly Masquerade traces the evolution of Gle...
Onyx Books • 456 pg • 1993