True Crime Book Summaries

Dark Alliance Summary
Dark Alliance
The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb 1998 601 pages
4.29
1.9K ratings
History
Politics
True Crime
Inside the Criminal Mind Summary
Inside the Criminal Mind
by Stanton E. Samenow 1984 288 pages
3.79
2.3K ratings
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
In Cold Blood Summary
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote 1966 343 pages
4.09
703.3K ratings
Classics
True Crime
Crime
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages Summary
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages
A Journey into the Evil Mind
by Christopher Berry-Dee 2017 288 pages
2.92
5.7K ratings
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
42.8K ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
Narconomics Summary
Narconomics
How to Run a Drug Cartel
by Tom Wainwright 2016 288 pages
4.15
11.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Crime
The Sing Sing Files Summary
The Sing Sing Files
One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
by Dan Slepian 2024 224 pages
4.50
2.1K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
We Are Bellingcat Summary
We Are Bellingcat
Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins 2021 272 pages
4.12
5.3K ratings
Politics
Journalism
History
Unmasked Summary
Unmasked
My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
by Paul Holes 2022 288 pages
4.09
28.0K ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Opus Summary
Opus
The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
by Gareth Gore 2024 447 pages
4.17
710 ratings
History
Religion
Politics
The Art of the Con Summary
The Art of the Con
How to Think Like a Real Hustler and Avoid Being Scammed
by R. Paul Wilson 2014 368 pages
3.91
120 ratings
Psychology
Crime
Business
A Mother's Reckoning Summary
A Mother's Reckoning
Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
by Sue Klebold 2016 336 pages
4.14
43.5K ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
Secrets in the Cellar Summary
Secrets in the Cellar
A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case that Shocked the World
by John Glatt 2009 256 pages
3.83
5.7K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Abuse
Extraordinary Circumstances Summary
Extraordinary Circumstances
The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
by Cynthia Cooper 2007 402 pages
3.98
514 ratings
Business
Accounting
Memoir
A Fever in the Heartland Summary
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan 2023 432 pages
4.36
41.0K ratings
History
True Crime
Book Club
The Phantom Prince Summary
The Phantom Prince
My Life with Ted Bundy
by Elizabeth Kendall 1981 183 pages
4.18
13.6K ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
The Devil at His Elbow Summary
The Devil at His Elbow
Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
by Valerie Bauerlein 2024 480 pages
4.47
8.5K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Relentless Pursuit My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein Summary
Relentless Pursuit My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein
by Bradley J. Edwards 2020 399 pages
4.30
1.0K ratings
True Crime
Law
Biography
Three Cups of Deceit Summary
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
by Jon Krakauer 2011 77 pages
3.72
11.4K ratings
Biography
History
Journalism
Hope Summary
Hope
A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland
by Amanda Berry 2015 321 pages
4.36
18.6K ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
A House in Gross Disorder Summary
A House in Gross Disorder
Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven
by Cynthia B. Herrup 1999 232 pages
3.52
116 ratings
History
17th Century
School
Black Edge Summary
Black Edge
Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
by Sheelah Kolhatkar 2017 295 pages
4.20
16.1K ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
The Franklin Scandal Summary
The Franklin Scandal
A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
by Nick Bryant 2008 650 pages
4.27
765 ratings
True Crime
History
Conspiracy Theories
Framed Summary
Framed
Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
by John Grisham 2024 368 pages
4.13
17.7K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Arrest-Proof Yourself Summary
Arrest-Proof Yourself
An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face
by Dale C. Carson 2007 288 pages
3.77
318 ratings
Self Help
Law
Survival
Best Evidence Summary
Best Evidence
by David S. Lifton 1980 920 pages
4.00
622 ratings
History
Conspiracy Theories
Politics
Nowhere Girl Summary
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
by Cheryl Diamond 2021 320 pages
4.05
8.2K ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Book Club
There Is No Ethan Summary
There Is No Ethan
How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
by Anna Akbari 2024 304 pages
3.58
7.1K ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
The Art Thief Summary
The Art Thief
A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by Michael Finkel 2023 224 pages
3.95
68.0K ratings
True Crime
Art
History
Forensic Detective Summary
Forensic Detective
How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
by Robert Mann 2006 272 pages
3.91
823 ratings
True Crime
Science
Crime
Forensics for Dummies Summary
Forensics for Dummies
by D.P. Lyle 2004 356 pages
4.07
557 ratings
True Crime
Reference
Crime
Russian Roulette Summary
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by Michael Isikoff 2018 352 pages
4.20
6.6K ratings
Politics
History
Russia
Gomorrah Summary
Gomorrah
by Roberto Saviano 2006 320 pages
3.80
21.5K ratings
Crime
Italy
True Crime
The Parrot's Perch Summary
The Parrot's Perch
by Karen Keilt 2019 288 pages
4.27
325 ratings
Memoir
Brazil
True Crime
Manifesting Justice Summary
Manifesting Justice
Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
by Valena E. Beety 2022 320 pages
4.33
117 ratings
Politics
History
True Crime
The Profiler Summary
The Profiler
My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
by Pat Brown 2010 285 pages
3.08
1.7K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
How to Solve a Crime Summary
How to Solve a Crime
Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics
by Angela Gallop 2022 272 pages
3.63
252 ratings
Science
True Crime
Crime
Criminology For Dummies Summary
Criminology For Dummies
by Steven Briggs 2009 384 pages
3.90
232 ratings
Reference
Crime
Science
The Art of the Con Summary
The Art of the Con
The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
by Anthony M. Amore 2015 264 pages
3.54
1.2K ratings
Art
True Crime
History
Walk the Blue Line Summary
Walk the Blue Line
They Walk the Line between Life and Death
by James Patterson 2023 352 pages
4.20
3.5K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
The Mask of Sanity Summary
The Mask of Sanity
by Hervey M. Cleckley 1941 596 pages
3.99
1.0K ratings
Psychology
Science
Mental Health
Hit Men Summary
Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
by Fredric Dannen 1990 432 pages
3.95
949 ratings
Music
History
Business
Five Families Summary
Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
by Selwyn Raab 2005 784 pages
4.14
6.2K ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
The Other Side of Prospect Summary
The Other Side of Prospect
A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
by Nicholas Dawidoff 2022 464 pages
4.43
415 ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
Notes on a Silencing Summary
Notes on a Silencing
A Memoir
by Lacy Crawford 2020 400 pages
4.25
9.2K ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
A Life of Crime Summary
A Life of Crime
The Memoirs of a High Court Judge
by Harry Ognall 2017 162 pages
3.72
808 ratings
Law
Biography
True Crime
Zero Fail Summary
Zero Fail
The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
by Carol Leonnig 2021 560 pages
4.23
9.7K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Black Mass Summary
Black Mass
by Dick Lehr 2000 424 pages
3.81
8.4K ratings
True Crime
History
Crime
No More Tears Summary
No More Tears
The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris 2025 464 pages
4.28
1.4K ratings
History
Business
Politics
Dreamland Summary
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones 2015 384 pages
4.23
31.4K ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
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