The most popular true crime books of 2021

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true crime books published in 2021, most popular first.

AMORALMAN A True Story and Other Lies

Derek DelGaudio

Published 2021

256 pages

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

Eric Powell, Harold Schechter

Published 2021

224 pages

The Key Man The True Story of how the Global Elite was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

Simon Clark, Will Louch

Published 2021

352 pages

We Are Bellingcat Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

Eliot Higgins

Published 2021

272 pages

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Emma Southon

Published 2021

352 pages

Confident Women Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Tori Telfer

Published 2021

336 pages

Everything Is Fine A Memoir

Vince Granata

Published 2021

304 pages

Solitary

Albert Woodfox

Published 2021

448 pages

On Crimes and Punishments With a Commentary of the Book of Crimes and Punishments by Voltaire

Beccaria

Published 2021

145 pages

Charlatan : The Fraudalent Life of John Brinkley

Pope Brock

Published 2021

344 pages

Till Murder Do Us Part

James Patterson

Published 2021

336 pages

Bad Girls

Gemma Rogers

Published 2021

364 pages

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Eric Jay Dolin

Published 2021

1 page

Pest Control

Bill Fitzhugh

Published 2021

336 pages

The Odyssey

Homes

Published 2021

348 pages

The Princess Spy The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones

Larry Loftis

Published 2021

384 pages

Borgias

Alexandre Dumas

Published 2021

193 pages

Hollywood Horrors

Andrea Van Landingham

Published 2021

312 pages

Redhanded An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and what Makes a Killer Tick

Suruthi Bala, Hannah Maguire

Published 2021

256 pages

18 Tiny Deaths The Untold Story of the Woman who Invented Modern Forensics

Bruce Goldfarb

Published 2021

353 pages

Ethel Rosenberg An American Tragedy

Anne Sebba

Published 2021

320 pages

The Falcon Thief A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

Joshua Hammer

Published 2021

336 pages

But I Trusted You Ann Rule's Crime Files #14

Ann Rule

Published 2021

416 pages

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

Gabriella Coleman

Published 2021

1 page

AMORALMAN A True Story and Other Lies

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

The Key Man The True Story of how the Global Elite was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale

We Are Bellingcat Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Confident Women Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Everything Is Fine A Memoir

Solitary

On Crimes and Punishments With a Commentary of the Book of Crimes and Punishments by Voltaire

Charlatan : The Fraudalent Life of John Brinkley

Till Murder Do Us Part

Bad Girls

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

Pest Control

The Odyssey

The Princess Spy The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones

Borgias

Hollywood Horrors

Redhanded An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and what Makes a Killer Tick

18 Tiny Deaths The Untold Story of the Woman who Invented Modern Forensics

Ethel Rosenberg An American Tragedy

The Falcon Thief A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

But I Trusted You Ann Rule's Crime Files #14

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

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