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The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
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I Cried to Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder, and Deliverance – A Memoir
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This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
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The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
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Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America
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Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder
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Green River, Running Red
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Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
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Jane: A Murder
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
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Free: My Search for Meaning
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Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen
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This Book Will Bury Me
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How to Survive a Bear Attack
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The Next One Is for You: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA’s Secret American Army
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The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom
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Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television
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Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean
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The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Stor
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The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
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Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
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My Time to Stand
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Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
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The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice
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All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes
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Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime scene investigation
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What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator
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Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist
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Dark Tide: Growing Up with Ted Bundy
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A Deathly Compendium of Poisonous Plants: Wicked Weeds and Sinister Seeds
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Murder, We Spoke
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Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement
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By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
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Travels of Terror: Strange and Spooky Spots Across America
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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence
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Salem Witch Trials: A History from Beginning to End
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The Natural History of Crime: Case Studies in Death and the Clues Nature Leaves Behind
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Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million
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Takedown :Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking
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The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases
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Maybe You Die: The True Story of a Couple Living the All-American Nightmare
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A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind
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Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation’s most iconic criminal cases
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Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels
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The Case of Lizzie Borden and Other Writings: Tales of a Newspaper Woman
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A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton
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Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime
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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America’s Biggest Catfish
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Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even
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Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable
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Woman on Trial
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The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History
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Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
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Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon’s Last Interview
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The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice
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Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom
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Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
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Stolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures
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Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed
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In the Pines: A Lynching, a Lie, a Reckoning
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A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer
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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
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Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives
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A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists
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Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi
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She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women
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Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI
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Like Every Form of Love: A Memoir of Friendship and True Crime
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Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless
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Ghosts of the Orphanage
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Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
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Narcas: The Secret Rise of Women in Latin America’s Cartels 
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Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer
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Don’t Call It a Cult: The Shocking Story of Keith Raniere and the Women of NXIVM
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Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning
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Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered
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In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
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In My DNA: My Career Investigating Your Worst Nightmares
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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
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The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring
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The Ghost Club
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Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
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Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: A Memoir
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A Life By Design: The art and lives of Florence Broadhurst
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All the Living and the Dead: from Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life’s Work
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A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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Queens of the Underworld: A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks
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Forensic Files Now: Inside 40 Unforgettable True Crime Cases
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Inside Job: The Life of a Prison Psychologist.
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All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
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A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
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The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency
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Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion
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Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side
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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
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Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
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Lucky
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Violence Interrupted: Confronting Sexual Violence on University Campuses
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
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A Sucky Love Story: Overcoming Unhappily Ever After
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
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Standoff: Race, Policing, and a Deadly Assault That Gripped a Nation
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All God’s Children
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Psycho.com: serial killers on the internet
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A Knock at Midnight
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The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives… The Inside Story of the Internet’s Evil Twin
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The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley
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Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
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Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer’s Daughter
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A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
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Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls
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Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
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Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
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Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection: Unidentified Serial Killers, Unsolved Kidnappings, and Mysterious Murders
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The Heart and Other Monsters
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Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers
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Notes on a Silencing
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
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America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
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Murder by the Book: The Crime That Shocked Dickens’s London
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The Forest City Killer: A Serial Murderer, a Cold-Case Sleuth, and a Search for Justice
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Have You Seen Simone?: The Story of an Unsolved Murder
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The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders
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The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London
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More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood
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Outsmarting the Sociopath Next Door: How to Protect Yourself Against a Ruthless Manipulator
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When Women Kill
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The Art of the English Murder: From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
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The Belle of Bedford Avenue: The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York
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Fake: A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and phonies
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country
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Mean
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Slaves Among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking
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True Crimes: A Family Album
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
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The Trial of Lizzie Borden
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The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
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Murder, Mystery and My Family: A True-Crime Casebook from the Hit BBC Series
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Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
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The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
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Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society
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The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall For It Every Time
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child
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Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
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Blood
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases
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Zephany: Two mothers. One daughter. An astonishing true story.
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What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
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Know My Name
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Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
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Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life
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Hate Crimes in Cyberspace
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The Sociopath Next Door
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Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
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Eggshell Skull: A Memoir About Standing Up, Speaking Out and Fighting Back
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
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True Crime Files: My Most Memorable Cases
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul
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Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention
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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope
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The Other Side
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Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side
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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
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The Stranger Beside Me
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Silk Road: The Shocking True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Online Drug Market
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
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Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties
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Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen
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In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult
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