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• The Babysitter

  My Summers With a Serial Killer

  Rodman, Liza,

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  ​​A chilling true story--part memoir, part crime investigation--reminiscent of Ann Rule's classic The Stranger Beside Me , about a little girl longing for love and how she found friendship with her charismatic babysitter--who was also a vicious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Stranger Beside Me

  Rule, Ann,

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  The Stranger Beside Me is Rule's compelling firsthand account of not just her relationship with Bundy, but also his life--from his complicated childhood to the media circus of his trials. Astonishing in its intimacy and with Rule's clear-eyed prose,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

  McNamara, Michelle,

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  The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case--which was solved in April 2018.

• The Kidnap Years

  the Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-era America

  Stout, David, 1942-2020

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  The Great Depression was a time of incomparable financial desperation in America. But little known-until now-are the many serial dramas that played out in homes and hideouts, courtrooms and cold cases across the country. In a time of panic, legal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Killers of the Flower Moon

  the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

  Grann, David,

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  In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In Cold Blood

  a True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

  Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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  Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Call

  a True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

  Green, Elon

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  The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay community of New York City that he preyed upon.

• American Fire

  Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

  Hesse, Monica

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  The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

  Cep, Casey N.

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  Casey Cep brings this story to life, from the shocking murders to the courtroom drama to the racial politics of the Deep South. At the same time, she offers a deeply moving portrait of one of the country's most beloved writers and her struggle with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Third Rainbow Girl

  the Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

  Eisenberg, Emma Copley,

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  A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia--and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.

• Chase Darkness With Me

  How One True-crime Writer Started Solving Murders

  Jensen, Billy (Journalist)

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  ournalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the familiesof victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common--they didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• If You Tell

  a True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

  Olsen, Gregg,

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  Gregg Olsen's shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors. After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom , it claws like an eagle's talons,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• People Who Eat Darkness

  the True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

  Lloyd Parry, Richard

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  Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.

• Invisible

  the Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

  Carter, Stephen L., 1954-

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  She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s--and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Feather Thief

  Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

  Johnson, Kirk W.,

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  On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Five

  the Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

  Rubenhold, Hallie,

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  For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Too Late to Say Goodbye

  a True Story of Murder and Betrayal

  Rule, Ann

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  From Americas #1 true crime writer and New York Times bestselling author comes her most engrossing book ever: a 14-year saga of treachery, jealousy, and murder, about two women who learned the truth too late about Dr. Bart Corbin of Atlanta.

• The Poisoner's Handbook

  Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

  Blum, Deborah, 1954-

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  Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook Blum draws from highly original…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kill Jar

  Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit's Most Notorious Serial Killer

  Appelman, J. Reuben,

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  Four children were abducted and murdered outside of Detroit during the winters of 1976 and 1977, their bodies eventually dumped in snow banks around the city. J. Reuben Appelman was only six years old when the murders began and even evaded an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Norco '80

  the True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

  Houlahan, Peter, 1961-

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  Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men--led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian--attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law…Read moreRead more of this annotation