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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 6609 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.11 — 266,305 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5842 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 737,114 ratings — published 1966
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4475 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 112,954 ratings — published 1980
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4134 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,674 ratings — published 2003
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 3946 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,805 ratings — published 1974
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 3624 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 453,443 ratings — published 2017
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2760 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 83,747 ratings — published 1995
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2538 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.29 — 103,376 ratings — published 2009
American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2352 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.08 — 49,808 ratings — published 2019
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2176 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 297,698 ratings — published 1994
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1936 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 359,989 ratings — published 2019
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 1841 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 227,103 ratings — published 2003
Green River, Running Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1555 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,660 ratings — published 2004
Small Sacrifices (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1548 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,633 ratings — published 1987
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1513 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 69,139 ratings — published 2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1479 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.47 — 173,571 ratings — published 2018
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1435 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,133 ratings — published 2013
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1384 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 283,762 ratings — published 2018
Zodiac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1370 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,850 ratings — published 1986
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1335 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 23,609 ratings — published 2010
The Monster of Florence (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1267 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.76 — 37,025 ratings — published 2008
The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1195 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,722 ratings — published 2019
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1141 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,967 ratings — published 2022
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 1133 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,888 ratings — published 2002
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1102 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,128 ratings — published 2019
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1093 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,254 ratings — published 2019
The Cases That Haunt Us (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1071 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 16,930 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1025 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.17 — 19,955 ratings — published 2017
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 993 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,382 ratings — published 2017
Fatal Vision (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 948 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,814 ratings — published 1983
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 934 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 26,712 ratings — published 2019
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 933 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 85,289 ratings — published 2006
Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 898 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,031 ratings — published
Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 897 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,138 ratings — published 1992
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder (Paperback)
by (shelved 893 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 28,037 ratings — published 2013
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town (Hardcover)
by (shelved 851 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 59,435 ratings — published 2015
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 849 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 102,754 ratings — published 2023
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 830 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,229 ratings — published 2020
The I-5 Killer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 818 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 12,383 ratings — published 1984
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 817 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 25,286 ratings — published 2008
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 809 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 76,597 ratings — published 2019
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 802 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 148,195 ratings — published 2011
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 786 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.02 — 37,538 ratings — published 2010
If You Really Loved Me (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 760 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,853 ratings — published 1991
Bitter Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 746 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.10 — 11,144 ratings — published 1997
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 744 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,026 ratings — published 2018
The Executioner's Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 729 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 23,632 ratings — published 1979
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 705 times as true-crime)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,453 ratings — published 1991
Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho" (Paperback)
by (shelved 702 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 10,201 ratings — published 1989
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 700 times as true-crime)
avg rating 3.47 — 9,701 ratings — published 2017
“They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“One day soon, you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards, twenty-nine years after he killed Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, in Sullivan, Wisconsin. Like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks, thirty years after he killed Lori Billingsley, in Aloha, Oregon.
The doorbell rings.
No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.
This is how it ends for you.
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.
Open the door. Show us your face.
Walk into the light.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The doorbell rings.
No side gates are left open. You’re long past leaping over a fence. Take one of your hyper, gulping breaths. Clench your teeth. Inch timidly toward the insistent bell.
This is how it ends for you.
“You’ll be silent forever, and I’ll be gone in the dark,” you threatened a victim once.
Open the door. Show us your face.
Walk into the light.”
― I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
