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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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
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century * "The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."--The New Yorker A...

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