True Crime Classics

Beginning with Truman's Capote's In Cold Blood, which defined the genre, here's a selection of the best of true crime writing.
Updated October 2, 2022
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In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)--and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb,...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New York...
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
Ebook
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
Maureen Callahan
Audiobook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Amazon "Best Book of 2019" A Washington Post "10 Books To Read in July" A Los Angeles Times "Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading" A USA Today "20 of the...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold
Paper Book

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