The 27 Best True Crime Books Every Person Should Read

Because the real world is more terrifying and unsettling than fiction.

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The Real Lolita
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Last Call
4
The Real Lolita
3.2
Savage Appetites
3.8
Party Monster
4.3
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
4
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
3.9
Shot in the Heart
4.3
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
3.4
Columbine
4.4
Blood Will Out
3.1
The Fact of a Body
3.6
The Poisoner's Handbook
4.1
Justice
3.5
Homicide
4.2
My Dark Places
3.8
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
3.8
Killers of the Flower Moon
4
Devil's Knot
4.3
The Brothers
3.7
The Blood of Emmett Till
4.5
The Devil in the White City
4.1
People Who Eat Darkness
3.9
The Red Parts
3.9
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
4.3
The Journalist and the Murderer
3.6
The Stranger Beside Me
4.2
In Cold Blood
4.3

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