The most popular true crime books of 2022

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true crime books published in 2022, most popular first.

Tangled Web

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Published 2022

210 pages

Build Your House Around My Body A Novel

Violet Kupersmith

Published 2022

400 pages

Nowhere Girl A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

Cheryl Diamond

Published 2022

320 pages

A Taste for Poison Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.

Published 2022

304 pages

We Own This City A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

Justin Fenton

Published 2022

352 pages

Monster The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Member

Sanyika Shakur

Published 2022

400 pages

Prisoners of the Castle An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Ben Macintyre

Published 2022

368 pages

Trailed One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

Published 2022

320 pages

Unmask Alice LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

Rick Emerson

Published 2022

384 pages

Written in Bone Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind

Sue Black

Published 2022

359 pages

Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Published 2022

225 pages

Savage Harvest

Carl Hoffman

Published 2022

322 pages

WAKE A Novel

Shelley Burr

Published 2022

368 pages

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Mary Rowlandson

Published 2022

53 pages

The Last Resort a gripping novel of lies, secrets and trouble in paradise

Marissa Stapley

Published 2022

320 pages

The Devil You Know Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

Gwen Adshead, Eileen Horne

Published 2022

336 pages

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

Published 2022

288 pages

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

Dean Jobb

Published 2022

432 pages

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner

Published 2022

576 pages

The Ratline The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Philippe Sands

Published 2022

448 pages

Doctor Ice Pick

Claire Prentice

Published 2022

The Defense Lawyer The Barry Slotnick Story

James Patterson, Benjamin Wallace

Published 2022

448 pages

AMORALMAN A True Story and Other Lies

Derek DelGaudio

Published 2022

256 pages

We Are Bellingcat The Online Sleuths Solving Global Crimes

Eliot Higgins

Published 2022

288 pages

Tangled Web

Build Your House Around My Body A Novel

Nowhere Girl A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

A Taste for Poison Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

We Own This City A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption

Monster The Autobiography of an L. A. Gang Member

Prisoners of the Castle An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison

Trailed One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Unmask Alice LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

Written in Bone Hidden Stories in what We Leave Behind

Circular Staircase

Savage Harvest

WAKE A Novel

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

The Last Resort a gripping novel of lies, secrets and trouble in paradise

The Devil You Know Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry

The Prison Doctor

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

The Ratline The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Doctor Ice Pick

The Defense Lawyer The Barry Slotnick Story

AMORALMAN A True Story and Other Lies

We Are Bellingcat The Online Sleuths Solving Global Crimes

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