Looking for true crime recommendations? – TheBookSwarm

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The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule

That book kept me up nights. I went through the house putting alarm stickers on all the windows.

Yeah. It is totally creepy, and it really happened.

Kelly I was living in Orlando when he was executed. It was so loud. Horns blaring-people cheering

Yikes ?

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Second this. I actually couldn’t sleep the night I finished it!

I actually had nightmares while I was reading it, and that’s a compliment to the work!

Reading it now and I keep double checking my door and window locks! Great book so far!

I listened to it! Extra creepy…

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule.
All her books are good.

It happened where I live. At the time the story sounded fishy.

The book was good, strange…but good.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

Anything by Ann Rule.

Ditto Killers of the Flower Moon. Chosen best book of 2017 by multiple best book lists. Movie is already in the works. Leonardo DiCaprio is going to play the lead.

In Cold Blood, Helter Skelter, American Taboo: a Murder in the Peace Corps by Weiss

Helter-skelter is a fantastic true crime book.

Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen

The devil in white city

Murder in the Heartland

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