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Listopia > Courtney's votes on the list True Crime Inspired Fiction (23 Books)
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The First Day of Spring
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"Based off of the life and crimes of Mary Bell"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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American Psycho
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"Obvi"
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The Ravenous
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"The girls are inspired by the "Bloody Benders" serial killing family with a zombie twist"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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In the Garden of Spite
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"Inspired by murderess Belle Gunness"
Courtney
rated it 4 stars
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Alias Grace
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"Inspired by Canadian murderess Grace Marks"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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All the Blood We Share: A Novel of the Bloody Benders of Kansas
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"Bloody Benders inspired"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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Don't Go to Sleep
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"Inspired the Axe Man of New Orleans"
Courtney
added it to to-read
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The Only One Left
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"Inspired by Lizzie Borden's story"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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The Perfect Place to Die
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"Inspired by HH Holmes and his "murder castle""
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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The Girls
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"Based on the Tate LaBianca murders by the Manson cult in 1969"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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Saint X
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"Inspired by Natalee Holloway's story"
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The Night Swim (Rachel Krall, #1)
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"Inspired by too many stories unfortunately but it especially reminded me of Chessy Prout's story"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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Girl A
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"Inspired by the Turpin House of Horrors and British serial killers Rose and Fred West"
Courtney
rated it 4 stars
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All These Bodies
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"Blake based this story on the real-life murder spree of teenagers Charlie Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate and the murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas"
Courtney
rated it 4 stars
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The Perfect Nanny
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"Inspired by what happened to the Krim family"
Courtney
rated it 4 stars
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Little Deaths
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"Inspired by the stories of Ruth Malone & Alice Crimmons"
Courtney
added it to to-read
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Psycho (Psycho, #1)
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"Inspired by Ed Gein "
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
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Room
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"Donoghue was inspired to write after reading about Josef Fritzl"
Courtney
rated it 5 stars
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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"Ed Gein inspired"
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Give Me Your Hand
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"Inspired by a true crime story in Texas Monthly"
Courtney
added it to to-read
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The Girl Next Door
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"Inspired by the horrible case of Sylvia Likens"
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The Night Shift
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"Inspired by the unsolved Austin Yogurt shop murders"
Courtney
rated it 3 stars
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