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Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

John E Douglas - Gallery Books
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback

Now a Netflix original series

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals.

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson - Vintage
Pages: 447
Format: Paperback

Erik Larson - author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts - intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted...

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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Vintage
Pages: 343
Format: Paperback

The most famous true crime novel of all time and one of the first non-fiction novels ever written; In Cold Blood is the bestseller that haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter...

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Zodiac

Robert Graysmith - Berkley
Pages: 400
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Robert Graysmith was on staff at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when Zodiac first struck, triggering in the resolute reporter an unrelenting obsession with seeing the hooded killer brought to justice. In this gripping account of Zodiac's eleven-month reign of terror, Graysmith...
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

MICHELLE MCNAMARA - Harper
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case - which was solved in April 2018.

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi - W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The #1 True Crime Bestseller of All Time—7 Million Copies Sold In the summer of 1969, in Los Angeles, a series of brutal, seemingly random murders captured headlines across America. A famous actress (and her unborn child), an heiress to a coffee fortune, a supermarket owner and his wife...
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The Stranger Beside Me

Ann Rule - Pocket Books
Pages: 625
Format: Book

THE DEFINITIVE WORK OF AMERICAN TRUE CRIME FROM "AMERICA'S BEST TRUE-CRIME WRITER" (Kirkus Reviews)

Utterly unique in its astonishing intimacy, as jarringly frightening as when it first appeared, Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me defies our expectation...
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Columbine

Dave Cullen - Twelve
Pages: 443
Format: Paperback

"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ."
So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake...

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