The most popular true crime books of 2020

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true crime books published in 2020, most popular first.

The Scientist and the Spy A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

Mara Hvistendahl

Published 2020

336 pages

We Thought We Knew You A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

M. William Phelps

Published 2020

336 pages

I Spy My Life in MI5

Tom Marcus

Published 2020

320 pages

Sex Trafficking Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Siddharth Kara

Published 2020

320 pages

Behind the Horror True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies

Dr. Lee Mellor

Published 2020

288 pages

To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett

Mark Lee Gardner

Published 2020

336 pages

I Catch Killers The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

Gary Jubelin

Published 2020

400 pages

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Annotated) Classic

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Published 2020

342 pages

Diamond Doris

Doris Payne

Published 2020

288 pages

Into The Forest And All The Way Through

Cynthia Pelayo

Published 2020

145 pages

The New Rules of War How America Can Win--Against Russia, China, and Other Threats

Sean McFate

Published 2020

336 pages

Breaking and Entering The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

Jeremy N. Smith

Published 2020

304 pages

The Burnt Orange Heresy (Movie Tie-In) A Novel

Charles Ray Willeford

Published 2020

176 pages

Unrestricted Warfare China's Master Plan to Destroy America

Wang Xiangsui, Liang Qiao

Published 2020

206 pages

Manhunters How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Steve Murphy, Javier F. Peña

Published 2020

352 pages

Fool Me Twice A Novel

Jeff Lindsay

Published 2020

368 pages

Ten Days in Mad-House

Nellie Bly

Published 2020

94 pages

True Crimes and Misdemeanors The Investigation of Donald Trump

Jeffrey Toobin

Published 2020

496 pages

Corrupt Bodies Death and Dirty Dealing at the Morgue

Peter Everett, Kris Hollington

Published 2020

288 pages

The Apparitionists A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Peter Manseau

Published 2020

357 pages

Behold the Monster Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer and Uncovering the Women Society Forgot

Jillian Lauren

Published 2020

320 pages

The Art of War Adapted for the Contemporary Reader

Sun Tzu

Published 2020

117 pages

Is Rape a Crime?

Michelle Bowdler

Published 2020

289 pages

Gray Day My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

Eric O'Neill

Published 2020

304 pages

The Scientist and the Spy A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

We Thought We Knew You A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

I Spy My Life in MI5

Sex Trafficking Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Behind the Horror True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies

To Hell on a Fast Horse Updated Edition The Untold Story of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett

I Catch Killers The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Annotated) Classic

Diamond Doris

Into The Forest And All The Way Through

The New Rules of War How America Can Win--Against Russia, China, and Other Threats

Breaking and Entering The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

The Burnt Orange Heresy (Movie Tie-In) A Novel

Unrestricted Warfare China's Master Plan to Destroy America

Manhunters How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

Fool Me Twice A Novel

Ten Days in Mad-House

True Crimes and Misdemeanors The Investigation of Donald Trump

Corrupt Bodies Death and Dirty Dealing at the Morgue

The Apparitionists A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost

Behold the Monster Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer and Uncovering the Women Society Forgot

The Art of War Adapted for the Contemporary Reader

Is Rape a Crime?

Gray Day My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

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