High Interest, Low Body Count

True crime doesn't have to mean multiple murder - try some of these titles with a lower body count.

Updated March 25, 2026
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Skyjack : the hunt for D.B. Cooper
Gray, Geoffrey.
Paper Book
"I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me."   That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man...
The great pearl heist : London's greatest thief and Scotland Yard's hunt for the world's most valuable necklace
Crosby, Molly Caldwell.
Paper Book
Molly Caldwell Crosby, author of The American Plague and Asleep, once again brings forgotten history to vivid life in an absorbing account of crime and deduction in the early days of the twentieth century. . . . In the summer of 1913, under the cover of London’s...
The art thief : a true story of love, crime, and a dangerous obsession
Finkel, Michael
Audiobook
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world's most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us...
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 Ponzi, audacious...
Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures
Wittman, Robert K.
Paper Book
The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”   In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his...

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