True Crime
Real crimes and their investigations unfold through gripping accounts of notorious cases, criminal psychology, and forensic breakthroughs. Expert investigators, survivors, and journalists reveal the dark truths behind headline-making mysteries, cold cases, and the minds of those who commit society's most shocking acts.
True Crime Book Summaries
Criminal (In)Justice
What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most
Politics
Sociology
Law
Manifesting Justice
Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
Politics
History
True Crime
The Parrot's Perch
Memoir
Brazil
True Crime
The Other Side of Prospect
A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
History
True Crime
Politics
Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the American City
Politics
Memoir
Social Justice
Last Chance in Texas
The Redemption of Criminal Youth
True Crime
Psychology
Social Justice
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
Memoir
True Crime
Biography
The Sun Does Shine
How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
The Violence Project
How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
Politics
True Crime
Psychology
Breaking the Silence
Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference
Fostering
Abuse
True Crime
The Minds of Billy Milligan
Psychology
True Crime
Biography
Stalling for Time
My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
True Crime
Memoir
Biography
Accountable
The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
Race
Social Justice
Education
Mind Hunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
True Crime
Crime
Psychology
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
History
Politics
True Crime
Walk the Blue Line
They Walk the Line between Life and Death
True Crime
Biography
Crime
Bad City
Peril and Power in the City of Angels
True Crime
Crime
Journalism
Black Edge
Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
Business
Finance
Economics
The Many Lives of Mama Love
A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
What the Dead Know
Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
The Best New True Crime Stories
Small Towns: Small Towns
True Crime
Crime
Horror
Criminology For Dummies
Reference
Crime
Science
Money Men
A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
Business
Finance
Crime
Knife
Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
American Kingpin
The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
History
True Crime
Crime
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
History
True Crime
Politics
How to Cheat at Everything
A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles
Crime
Magic
Research
The Gift of Fear
Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Psychology
Self Help
True Crime
The Secret Barrister
Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
Law
Politics
Crime
Dark Alliance
The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
History
Politics
True Crime
Inside the Criminal Mind
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
The Art of the Con
How to Think Like a Real Hustler and Avoid Being Scammed
Psychology
Crime
Business
If You Tell
A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
True Crime
Crime
Thriller
In Cold Blood
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
The Devil at His Elbow
Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty
True Crime
Crime
History
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages
A Journey into the Evil Mind
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages
Beyond Evil
True Crime
Psychology
Crime
Behind the Door
The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
True Crime
Memoir
History
The Wolf of Wall Street
Biography
Business
Memoir
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
History
True Crime
American History
Provenance
How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Art
True Crime
History
Framed
Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
True Crime
Crime
History
Molly's Game
From Hollywood's Elite to Wall Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Adventure in the World of Underground Poker
Memoir
Biography
True Crime
Crazy Love
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Three Cups of Deceit
How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Biography
History
Journalism
The Devil in the White City
History
True Crime
Crime
Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
Music
History
Business
Opus
The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
History
Politics
Religion
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Business
True Crime
Science
