Books To Read If You Like True Crime
11 Dec 2019
Books To Read If You Like True Crime
Do you have a fascination with true crime and need some new recommendations for your reading list? You won’t want to miss these books from some of the biggest names in the genre. Dive into these intriguing stories from Kathryn McMaster, Gregg Olsen, Billy Jensen, Jan Stocklassa, Maureen Callahan, and Lena Derhally.
Kids who Kill: Austin Sigg
by Kathryn McMaster
Release Date: November 29, 2019
Ten-year-old Jessica Ridgeway went missing in 2012 on a snowy morning in Westminster, Colorado. She was abducted, raped, tortured, murdered and dismembered. But who was responsible? A criminal profile was created from the little evidence they found. They were looking for a male sex offender who has definitely killed before. Then a breakthrough occurs. A 17-year-old confessed but doesn’t match the profile. Is he actually the killer?
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If You Tell
by Gregg Olsen
Release Date: December 1, 2019
The new true crime story from the New York Times Bestselling Author, Gregg Olsen… The word mom triggers horrific memories for sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek. For years, behind the closed doors of a farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their mother, Shelly, subjected the girls to abuse, torture, and psychic terrors. Throughout everything, the three girls developed a defiant bond that helped them escape the escalating nightmare.
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Chase Darkness with Me
by Billy Jensen
Release Date: August 13, 2019
Journalist Billy Jensen spent fifteen years investigating unsolved murders. Every one of his stories had one thing in common–they never had an ending. The killer was never found. But after the sudden death of Michelle McNamara, the author of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, he was fed up. He decided to start investigating beyond the point when the police had given up. He planned to start solving murders himself.
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The Man Who Played with Fire
by Jan Stocklassa
Release Date: October 1, 2019
When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, he was working on something much more twisted than his Millenium novels. He was investigating the assassination of the Swedish prime minister, Olaf Palme, in 1986. In The Man Who Played with Fire, Jan Stocklassa picks up where Larsson left off and collects the pieces of this true-crime puzzle.
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American Predator
by Maureen Callahan
Release Date: July 2, 2019
Serial killers like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are notorious in public consciousness. But most people haven’t heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history. His behavior was unprecedented and he was described by prosecutors as “a force of pure evil”. Over a fourteen-year period, Keyes struck all over the United States. When journalist Maureen Callahan first heard about Israel Keyes in 2012, she was amazed at how a killer of this magnitude could go undetected for so long.
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My Daddy is a Hero
by Lena Derhally
Release Date: December 9, 2019
Everybody knew Chriss Watts as a family man, even his family. But on August 13, 2018, he murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters. This story acts as a warning because, to this day, he lives behind bars and stills acts out the character traits that made him kill. In My Daddy is a Hero, psychotherapist Lena Derhally explores the Watts family murders and pieces together the crime and events leading up to it.
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