Lists and Suggestions
List: Nonfiction - True Crime
Columbine
Cullen, David,
Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning jo...
The Devil in the White City
Larson, Erik.
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the ot...
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Berendt, John,
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981....
The Girls of Murder City
Perry, Douglas,
The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical Chicago. Ther...
Death in a Prairie House
Drennan, William R.
The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright's celebrated life involve...
In Cold Blood
Capote, Truman,
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were ...
Hellhound on His Trail
Sides, Hampton.
April, 1967: a prison escape. James Earl Ray, nondescript thief and con man, drifts through the Sout...
In the Still of the Night
Rule, Ann.
"New York Times"-bestselling author Rule investigates the case of a woman whose supposed s...
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Seal, Mark,
A probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious imposter, Christian Gerheitsreiter, and his &quo...
Helter Skelter
Bugliosi, Vincent.
The prosecutor of the Tate-LaBianca trials presents the inside story behind the Manson killings, exp...
The Stranger Beside Me
Rule, Ann.
The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling true crime writer tells the chilling tale of how she c...
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Summerscale, Kate,
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his thr...
Midnight in Peking
French, Paul,
Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious unsolved 1937 murder ...
Killing Pablo
Bowden, Mark,
Killing Pablo is the story of the fifteen-month manhunt for Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo E...
The Night Stalker
Carlo, Philip.
The definitive account of this serial murderer, based on sixty hours of personal interviews with Ram...
Death in the City of Light
King, David,
The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occ...

A Father
Dahmer, Lionel.
"On July 23, 1991, Milwaukee chemist Lionel Dahmer discovered - along with the rest of the worl...