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At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice
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Unnatural Death: Confessions of a Medical Examiner
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Shadow Play: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
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William Klaber (Goodreads Author)
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Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
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Paul Holes (Goodreads Author)
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
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Coroner
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Cause of Death
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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Blood on the Table: The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
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The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
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What the Corpse Revealed: Murder and the Science of Forensic Detection
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Tales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases Including The Scott Peterson & Chandra Levy Cases
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When Nashville Bled: the untold stories of serial killer Paul Dennis Reid
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Judith A. Yates (Goodreads Author)
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Killers: the Most Barbaric Murderers of Our Times
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It was murder!
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A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
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Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide And The Criminal Mind
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Trace Evidence: The Search for the I-5 Strangler
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Bruce Henderson (Goodreads Author)
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True Detectives
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Lawyer Games: After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Top 10 American Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of Psychopaths
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Dead Men Tell Tales: A survey of exhumations from earliest antiquity to the present day
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Murder In Room 117: Solving The Cold Case That Led To America's Longest War
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Arthur Kent (Goodreads Author)
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
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Broken: The Suspicious Death of Alydar and the End of Horse Racing’s Golden Age
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Fred M. Kray (Goodreads Author)
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Ripperology The Best of Ripperologist Magazine
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Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them
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Detective Piggott's Casebook Famous True Crime Cases
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Meet The Bosses: Vol. 1 From Capos to Godfathers
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Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
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John Glatt (Goodreads Author)
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers
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Imperfect Justice: Prosecuting Casey Anthony
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The Bankers: How The Banks Ruined The Irish Economy
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The Scarlet Thread
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Coroner at Large
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Fast Eddie
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Cocaine Kingpins: 'El Chapo' Edition
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime
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Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
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John Glatt (Goodreads Author)
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
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Forty Years of Murder
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Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
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Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives
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A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
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Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
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Abbeylara: The Tragic Shooting of John Carthy
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Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
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Shane O'Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Cocaine Kingpins
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The Medical Detectives: The Classic Collection of Award-Winning Medical Investigative Reporting
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Fatal Journey: The Murder of Trevor O'keeffe
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The Dead Do Talk
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All She Wanted
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Aphrodite Jones (Goodreads Author)
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The Murder File: An Irish Detective's Casebook
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
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Blood Games
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Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows
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The Last Executioner: Memoirs of Thailand's Last Prison Executioner
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Criminal Minds: Sociopaths, Serial Killers, and Other Deviants
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Jeffrey J. Mariotte (Goodreads Author)
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Serpico
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Columbine
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Dave Cullen (Goodreads Author)
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Who Killed Jonbenet Ramsey?
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Charles Bosworth Jr. (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 693 ratings
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The Jigsaw Man: The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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The Sheriff: A Detective's Story
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Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious death of a young woman in 1916
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On the Beat
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Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery
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Cause of Death: Forensic Files of a Medical Examiner
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The Final Beat: Gardai Who Died in the Line of Duty
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Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force
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The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
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Mrs. Paine's Garage: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy
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Shocking Cases from Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Files
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Every Contact Leaves a Trace : Scientific Detection in the Twentieth Century
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The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed
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Jay Margolis (Goodreads Author)
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Coroner's Journal: Stalking Death in Louisiana
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The Untouchables
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Black Dahlia, Red Rose
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Unfinished Business: What the Dead Can Teach Us About Life
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Lifers
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Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
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When We Die : The Science, Culture, and Rituals of Death
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Missing: Missing Without Trace in Ireland
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
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Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss
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Lines and Shadows
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The Blooding
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Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
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The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art
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Matthew Hart (Goodreads Author)
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
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Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
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Rent: The untold story of male prostitution in Dublin
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Murder in Boston
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Ken Englade (Goodreads Author)
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An Garda Siochana and the Scott Medal
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Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?
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Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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Dan Fagin (Goodreads Author)
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Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal
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Cracking Crime: Jim Donovan--Forensic Detective
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Saturday's
2226 books
67 friends
67 friends
William
5285 books
39 friends
39 friends
Shelley
998 books
7 friends
7 friends
Heidi
9369 books
36 friends
36 friends
~Brandy~
2111 books
26 friends
26 friends
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