True Crime Book Summaries

The Natashas Summary
The Natashas
Inside the New Global Sex Trade
by Victor Malarek 2011 320 pages
3.90
951 ratings
True Crime
Feminism
Sociology
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
Breaking the Silence Summary
Breaking the Silence
Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference
by Casey Watson 2013 304 pages
4.42
1.1K ratings
Fostering
Abuse
True Crime
Hype Summary
Hype
How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internetβ€”and Why We're Following
by Gabrielle Bluestone 2021 352 pages
3.33
1.2K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Sociology
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
You Can't Lie to Me Summary
You Can't Lie to Me
by Janine Driver 2012 288 pages
3.81
627 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Hollywood Babylon Summary
Hollywood Babylon
by Kenneth Anger 1959 305 pages
3.69
6.2K ratings
Film
History
Biography
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
Wilmington's Lie Summary
Wilmington's Lie
The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino 2020 426 pages
4.43
4.0K ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Psychopath Whisperer Summary
The Psychopath Whisperer
The Science of Those Without Conscience
by Kent A. Kiehl 2014 304 pages
4.06
3.8K ratings
Psychology
Science
True Crime
Exploding the Phone Summary
Exploding the Phone
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley 2013 431 pages
4.20
1.7K ratings
History
Technology
True Crime
The Dark Side of the Mind Summary
The Dark Side of the Mind
True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
by Kerry Daynes 2019 250 pages
4.03
7.2K ratings
Psychology
True Crime
Crime
The Secret Barrister Summary
The Secret Barrister
Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by The Secret Barrister 2018 385 pages
3.89
21.3K ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
Black Mass Summary
Black Mass
by Dick Lehr 2000 424 pages
3.81
8.4K ratings
True Crime
History
Crime
While the City Slept Summary
While the City Slept
A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness
by Eli Sanders 2016 336 pages
3.99
3.6K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mental Illness
Silent No More Summary
Silent No More
Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky
by Aaron Fisher 2012 218 pages
4.09
771 ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Tokyo Noir Summary
Tokyo Noir
In and Out of Japan's Underworld
by Jake Adelstein 2024 320 pages
3.90
377 ratings
Japan
True Crime
Crime
Get the Truth Summary
Get the Truth
Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone to Tell All
by Philip Houston 2014 272 pages
3.84
868 ratings
Psychology
Communication
Self Help
Traces Summary
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
by Patricia Wiltshire 2019 312 pages
3.60
2.9K ratings
True Crime
Science
Memoir
Prophet's Prey Summary
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
by Sam Brower 2011 336 pages
3.98
6.9K ratings
True Crime
Religion
Cults
Behind the Door Summary
Behind the Door
The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
by Amy Price 2023 240 pages
3.50
1.0K ratings
True Crime
Memoir
History
Tokyo Vice Summary
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
by Jake Adelstein 2009 335 pages
3.91
16.3K ratings
Crime
True Crime
Memoir
Case Closed Summary
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by Gerald Posner 1993 640 pages
4.03
2.2K ratings
History
True Crime
American History
Blind Injustice Summary
Blind Injustice
A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
by Mark Godsey 2017 265 pages
4.39
327 ratings
True Crime
Social Justice
Crime
El Narco Summary
El Narco
Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
by Ioan Grillo 2011 336 pages
4.07
4.9K ratings
History
Crime
True Crime
Kingpin Summary
Kingpin
How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by Kevin Poulsen 2011 288 pages
3.97
8.0K ratings
Biography
Technology
True Crime
Bad City Summary
Bad City
Peril and Power in the City of Angels
by Paul Pringle 2022 304 pages
4.21
3.5K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Journalism
The Violence Project Summary
The Violence Project
How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
by Jillian Peterson 2021 240 pages
4.46
1.3K ratings
Politics
True Crime
Psychology
Stealing Your Life Summary
Stealing Your Life
The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
by Frank W. Abagnale 2007 256 pages
3.69
289 ratings
Business
Crime
True Crime
Some People Need Killing Summary
Some People Need Killing
A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by Patricia Evangelista 2023 428 pages
4.19
8.0K ratings
History
Memoir
Politics
Perversion of Justice Summary
Perversion of Justice
The Jeffrey Epstein Story
by Julie K. Brown 2021 463 pages
4.12
2.2K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Journalism
Manifest Injustice Summary
Manifest Injustice
The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom
by Barry Siegel 2013 400 pages
4.08
159 ratings
True Crime
Crime
The Big Con Summary
The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
by David W. Maurer 1940 315 pages
3.83
1.2K ratings
History
Crime
True Crime
The Dope Summary
The Dope
The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
by Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 pages
4.03
1.0K ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
Assassination Generation Summary
Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
by Dave Grossman 2016 272 pages
3.70
329 ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Parenting
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief Summary
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
by Bill Mason 2004 384 pages
3.86
1.0K ratings
Biography
True Crime
Crime
Forensics Summary
Forensics
What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime
by Val McDermid 2014 310 pages
4.09
12.0K ratings
Science
True Crime
Crime
The Black Hand Summary
The Black Hand
The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
by Chris Blatchford 2008 352 pages
4.07
2.0K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
A Criminal History of Mankind Summary
A Criminal History of Mankind
by Colin Wilson 1985 815 pages
3.90
763 ratings
History
Psychology
True Crime
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much Summary
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
by Allison Hoover Bartlett 2009 274 pages
3.44
13.6K ratings
Books About Books
True Crime
Biography
Four Shots in the Night Summary
Four Shots in the Night
A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
by Henry Hemming 2024 368 pages
4.28
947 ratings
History
Ireland
True Crime
Wyatt Earp Summary
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
by Casey Tefertiller 1997 416 pages
4.00
777 ratings
History
Biography
Westerns
The Lazarus Heist Summary
The Lazarus Heist
From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
by Geoff White 2022 304 pages
4.15
1.4K ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
The Devil's Playbook Summary
The Devil's Playbook
Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
by Lauren Etter 2021 495 pages
4.15
516 ratings
Business
Health
Science
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries Summary
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries
by Colin Wilson 1984 320 pages
3.66
254 ratings
Paranormal
Mystery
History
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages Summary
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages
Beyond Evil
by Christopher Berry-Dee 2019 288 pages
3.10
1.8K ratings
True Crime
Psychology
Crime
Cops' True Stories of the Paranormal Summary
Cops' True Stories of the Paranormal
Ghosts, UFOs, and Other Shivers
by Loren W. Christensen 2016 208 pages
3.89
746 ratings
Paranormal
True Crime
Ghosts
When a Killer Calls Summary
When a Killer Calls
by John E. Douglas 2022 336 pages
4.03
5.8K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
The Spider Network Summary
The Spider Network
The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by David Enrich 2017 528 pages
4.07
6.2K ratings
Business
Finance
History
The Ultimate Evil Summary
The Ultimate Evil
by Maury Terry 1987 538 pages
3.87
2.0K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
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