Looking for a True Crime for my book challenge. Any favorites?
Looking for a True Crime for my book challenge. Any favorites??
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Looking for a True Crime for my book challenge. Any favorites??
The Alex Cross series by James Patterson
That’s fiction.
Apologies read comment wrong!
The Good Nurse. It was intense but a very good read.
Best true crime for me was “In Cold Blood”
Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule. Took place where I live.
The lost girls by Robert Koller (about the long island serial killer) and true crime addict (about a college girl who went missing)
All of the Ann Rule books.
Most anything by Ann Rule. Fatal Vision, can’t recall the author.
Anything by Ann Rule is really good! I read almost all of her books
Monster of Florence
It’s hard to say loved about such brutal events, but I loved that book! I found the connections made to the Amanda Knox story fascinating.
I agree….so good.
Careless Whispers. About the Lake Waco murders.
I second the lost girls by Robert koller
In Cold Blood, Lost Girls, The Murder Room, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, The Skeleton Crew, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Careless People ?
Almost goes without saying: “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote.
One of the best written for sure.
“The fact of the body” is part memoir part true crime.
This title sounds intriguing, especially since it’s part memoir.
In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, Mindhunter, Whoever Fights Monsters.
Killers of the Flower Moon was on ALL of the best books of 2017 lists. The movie is already in the works. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29496076-killers-of-the-flower-moon?from_search=true
I had to order that one! It looks amazing and horrific at the same time!
Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman & the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West by Dan Schultz
Helter Skekter by Vincent Bugliosi
Terror by Night
The Devil in the White City
“Mind Hunter “, by John Douglas. About the FBI profiler unit.
Innocent Man by Grisham. I lived almost 30 years in the town where the crime happened. It caused quite a stir when Grisham came to research his book.
Ada? Asher?
Ada
Just finished Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakuer
Have Under The Banner Of Heaven-Is it worth reading? I enjoyed Into Thin Air by him
Anything by Ann Rule. Also People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman. The latter was a bit long/slow paced(I listened to the audiobook so that may be why), but very interesting!
YES! The Stranger Beside Me was the BEST! ?
Just read two good ones. “Desert Reckoning – A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History” and also “Goat Castle – A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South”. Both fascinating and show real life can be more bizarre than fiction.
Thank y’all so much!!! Headed to the library tomorrow ??
Dewey Call number 364.1523
In Cold Blood, if it’s not been suggested yet.
Killers of the Flower Moon…amazon’s best book of 2017.
Heater Skelter
Definitely In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood (T.Capote)
“Black Dahlia, Red Rose”, by Piu Eatwell. About the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles.
Bringing Adam Home
Helter skelter
Son of a Grifter and Black Dahlia Avenger
John Grisham’s Innocent Man
Anything by Ann Rule, especially The Stranger Beside Me. Also Fatal Vision by Joe McGiniss.
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinnis
In cold blood, by Truman Capote
Ann Rule has written some very good ones.
True crime addict
By James renner. It’s about the case of Maura Murray. I really enjoyed this book because the case itself is so interesting
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt… also a movie…
The Wicked Boy by Kate Summerscale won the 2017 Edgar award for Best True Crime. Haven’t read it yet. Long wait list at the library. https://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Boy-Infamous-Murder-Victorian/dp/0143110462/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1515630659&sr=1-1&keywords=the+wicked+boy
The NYT had a list back in October. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/books/review/true-crime-black-dahlia-red-rose-piu-eatwell.html
The Spider and the Fly is journalistic look into the mind of a psycho killer (writter by a friend of mine). It’s not a traditional crime book, but it’s a great read!
Ann Rule
Bitter Blood by Jerry Bledsoe