True Crime Book Summaries

Dreamland Summary
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
by Sam Quinones 2015 384 pages
4.23
31k+ 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
500+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
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
6k+ ratings
True Crime
Religion
Cults
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
1k+ ratings
History
Technology
True Crime
The Best New True Crime Stories Summary
The Best New True Crime Stories
Small Towns: Small Towns
by Mitzi Szereto 2020 256 pages
3.32
100+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Horror
The Natashas Summary
The Natashas
Inside the New Global Sex Trade
by Victor Malarek 2011 320 pages
3.90
500+ ratings
True Crime
Feminism
Sociology
Silent No More Summary
Silent No More
Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky
by Aaron Fisher 2012 218 pages
4.09
500+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
The Mask of Sanity Summary
The Mask of Sanity
by Hervey M. Cleckley 1941 596 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Mental Health
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
6k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
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
1k+ ratings
True Crime
Memoir
History
Bad City Summary
Bad City
Peril and Power in the City of Angels
by Paul Pringle 2022 304 pages
4.21
3k+ 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
100+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
The Violence Project Summary
The Violence Project
How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic
by Jillian Peterson 2021 240 pages
4.46
1k+ ratings
Politics
True Crime
Psychology
The Book of Murder Summary
The Book of Murder
A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
by Matt Murphy 2024 320 pages
4.47
2k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
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
21k+ ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
Assassination Generation Summary
Assassination Generation
Video Games, Aggression, and the Psychology of Killing
by Dave Grossman 2016 272 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Parenting
Hollywood Babylon Summary
Hollywood Babylon
by Kenneth Anger 1959 305 pages
3.69
6k+ ratings
Film
History
Biography
Traces Summary
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
by Patricia Wiltshire 2019 312 pages
3.60
2k+ ratings
True Crime
Science
Memoir
Stealing Your Life Summary
Stealing Your Life
The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
by Frank W. Abagnale 2007 256 pages
3.69
100+ ratings
Business
Crime
True Crime
Case Closed Summary
Case Closed
Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
by Gerald Posner 1993 640 pages
4.03
2k+ ratings
History
True Crime
American History
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
500+ ratings
Psychology
Communication
Self Help
Tokyo Vice Summary
Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
by Jake Adelstein 2009 335 pages
3.91
16k+ ratings
Crime
True Crime
Memoir
Public Enemies Summary
Public Enemies
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by Bryan Burrough 2004 640 pages
3.98
5k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
Tokyo Noir Summary
Tokyo Noir
In and Out of Japan's Underworld
by Jake Adelstein 2024 320 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Japan
True Crime
Crime
Blind Injustice Summary
Blind Injustice
A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
by Mark Godsey 2017 265 pages
4.39
100+ ratings
True Crime
Social Justice
Crime
The Big Con Summary
The Big Con
The Story of the Confidence Man
by David W. Maurer 1940 315 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
History
Crime
True Crime
A Criminal History of Mankind Summary
A Criminal History of Mankind
by Colin Wilson 1985 815 pages
3.90
500+ 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
13k+ ratings
Books About Books
True Crime
Biography
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
1k+ ratings
True Crime
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
500+ ratings
History
Ireland
True Crime
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
500+ ratings
Business
Health
Science
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief Summary
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
by Bill Mason 2004 384 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Biography
True Crime
Crime
Wyatt Earp Summary
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
by Casey Tefertiller 1997 416 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
History
Biography
Westerns
Education of a Felon Summary
Education of a Felon
by Edward Bunker 1999 320 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Biography
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
8k+ ratings
History
Memoir
Politics
The Ultimate Evil Summary
The Ultimate Evil
by Maury Terry 1987 538 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages Summary
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages
Beyond Evil
by Christopher Berry-Dee 2019 288 pages
3.10
1k+ ratings
True Crime
Psychology
Crime
Rogue Trader Summary
Rogue Trader
by Nick Leeson 1996 365 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Finance
Biography
Business
How to Cheat at Everything Summary
How to Cheat at Everything
A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles
by Simon Lovell 2006 456 pages
3.62
100+ ratings
Crime
Magic
Research
El Narco Summary
El Narco
Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
by Ioan Grillo 2011 336 pages
4.07
4k+ 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
7k+ ratings
Biography
Technology
True Crime
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
6k+ ratings
Business
Finance
History
The Hate Next Door Summary
The Hate Next Door
Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
by Matson Browning 2023 368 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
History
Politics
True Crime
When a Killer Calls Summary
When a Killer Calls
by John E. Douglas 2022 336 pages
4.03
5k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Shot All to Hell Summary
Shot All to Hell
Jesse James, the Northfield Raid, and the Wild West's Greatest Escape
by Mark Lee Gardner 2013 320 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
History
True Crime
American History
Blood on the Moon Summary
Blood on the Moon
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
by Edward Steers Jr. 2001 400 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
History
Civil War
American History
Killing the Dream Summary
Killing the Dream
James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Gerald Posner 1998 448 pages
4.08
100+ ratings
History
American History
True Crime
To Hell on a Fast Horse Summary
To Hell on a Fast Horse
Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and the Epic Chase to Justice in the Old West
by Mark Lee Gardner 2010 518 pages
3.78
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
Westerns
The Desert and the Sea Summary
The Desert and the Sea
977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore 2018 480 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Memoir
Africa
Biography
Hauptmann's Ladder Summary
Hauptmann's Ladder
A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
by Richard T. Cahill Jr. 2014 416 pages
4.15
100+ ratings
True Crime
History
Crime
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