Best Recent True Crime Reads

Check out these recent True Crime reads!

Updated November 17, 2023
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Bad blood : secrets and lies in a Silicon Valley startup
Carreyrou, John
Paper Book
'I couldn't put down this thriller' - Bill Gates Winner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. The shocking true story of the breathtaking rise and collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth...
In the mouth of the wolf : a murder, a cover-up, and the true cost of silencing the press
Corcoran, Katherine
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America "Chilling and nuanced ... a murder mystery but also, more important, a portrait of a nation where no one knows what to believe, or whom to trust."--Mark Bowden, The New York Times Book Review...
The good girls : an ordinary killing
Faleiro, Sonia
Paper Book
'Narrative reportage at its best. Just extraordinary' Fatima Bhutto'A page-turner, a feminist text, and an essential read that is deeply empathetic' Deepa Anappara, author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple LineA masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two...
Killers of the Flower Moon : oil, money, murder and the birth of the FBI
Grann, David.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE...
Last call : a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York
Green, Elon
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME** A "terrific, harrowing, true-crime account of an elusive serial killer who preyed upon gay men in the 1990s." -The New York Times (Editor's Pick) "In this astonishing and powerful work of...
The angel makers : arsenic, a midwife, and modern history's most astonishing murder ring
McCracken, Patricia Nell
Paper Book
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men. The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day...
I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
McNamara, Michelle
Paper Book
THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO® DOCUMENTARY SERIES #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate...
Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
Telfer, Tori
Paper Book
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams--by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles...

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