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Book List: True Crime
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Get the inside scoop on real-life crimes and criminals, including how the crimes were committed, investigated, and punished.


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Catch Me if You Can  by Frank Abagnale

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story by John Berendt

All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Killing Pablo: the Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden

Helter Skelter: the True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood: a True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote

Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob by Bob Delaney

The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald

My Dark Places: an L. A. Crime Memoir by James Ellroy

Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos

The Beast of Chicago: an Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett by Rick Geary 

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row by Susan Kuklin

Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

Alchemy of Bones: Chicago's Luetgert Murder Case of 1897 by Robert Loerzel

Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich

101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven by Michael Powell

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L. A. by Luis Rodriguez

Small Sacrifices: a True Story of Passion and Murder by Ann Rule

Lethal Intent by Sue Russell

My Bloody Life: the Making of a Latin King and Once a King, Always a King: the Unmaking of a Latin King by Reymundo Sanchez 

Lady Q: the Rise and Fall of a Latin Queenby Reymundo Sanchez and Sonia Rodriguez

Lucky by Alice Sebold

Gang Leader for a Day: a Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh

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