The most popular true crime books of 2020

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true crime books published in 2020, most popular first.

Written in Bone Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind

Sue Black

Published 2020

359 pages

The Circular Staircase Annotated

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Published 2020

334 pages

Yellow Bird Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

Sierra Crane Murdoch

Published 2020

379 pages

A Sucky Love Story Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

Brittani Louise Taylor

Published 2020

256 pages

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Jessica McDiarmid

Published 2020

447 pages

The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord

Evan Ratliff

Published 2020

496 pages

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side

Julia Shaw

Published 2020

320 pages

The Little Prisoner

Jane Elliott

Published 2020

336 pages

The Perfect Father The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder

John Glatt

Published 2020

304 pages

The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson

Published 2020

76 pages

Serpico

Peter Maas

Published 2020

Murder Thy Neighbor

James Patterson

Published 2020

320 pages

Fentanyl, Inc How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

Ben Westhoff

Published 2020

352 pages

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

Dr Amanda Brown

Published 2020

288 pages

The Hacker Crackdown Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

Bruce Sterling

Published 2020

324 pages

A Death in the Vatican

Philippe Sands

Published 2020

432 pages

What's Left of Me Is Yours

Stephanie Scott

Published 2020

352 pages

An American Summer Love and Death in Chicago

Alex Kotlowitz

Published 2020

304 pages

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America's Opioid Epidemic

Barry Meier

Published 2020

The Haunting of Alma Fielding Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020

Kate Summerscale

Published 2020

345 pages

Practice to Deceive

Ann Rule

Published 2020

352 pages

From Russia with Blood Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

Heidi Blake

Published 2020

352 pages

Murder Beyond the Grave

James Patterson

Published 2020

320 pages

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Murder in Ancient Rome

Emma Southon

Published 2020

320 pages

Written in Bone Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind

The Circular Staircase Annotated

Yellow Bird Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

A Sucky Love Story Overcoming Unhappily Ever After

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

The Mastermind: A True Story of Murder, Empire, and a New Kind of Crime Lord

Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side

The Little Prisoner

The Perfect Father The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder

The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson

Serpico

Murder Thy Neighbor

Fentanyl, Inc How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

The Hacker Crackdown Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier

A Death in the Vatican

What's Left of Me Is Yours

An American Summer Love and Death in Chicago

Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origins of America's Opioid Epidemic

The Haunting of Alma Fielding Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020

Practice to Deceive

From Russia with Blood Putin's Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

Murder Beyond the Grave

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Murder in Ancient Rome

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