The most popular true crime books of 2022

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true crime books published in 2022, most popular first.

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

Emma Southon

Published 2022

352 pages

Everything Is Fine A Memoir

Vince Granata

Published 2022

304 pages

On Crimes and Punishments

Beccaria

Published 2022

244 pages

Hell's Half-Acre The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

Susan Jonusas

Published 2022

368 pages

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

Matthew Campbell, Kit Chellel

Published 2022

288 pages

We Carry Their Bones The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Erin Kimmerle

Published 2022

241 pages

Slenderman Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

Published 2022

348 pages

The Other Dr. Gilmer Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

Benjamin Gilmer

Published 2022

304 pages

The Odyssey (Arcturus Gilded Classics, 5)

Homes

Published 2022

384 pages

Lost in the Valley of Death

Harley Rustad

Published 2022

304 pages

American Demon Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower

Published 2022

352 pages

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

Larry Loftis

Published 2022

400 pages

Sandy Hook An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

Elizabeth Williamson

Published 2022

496 pages

The Borgias

Alexandre Dumas

Published 2022

184 pages

Bad City Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Paul Pringle

Published 2022

304 pages

The Winter Killer (DI James Walker series, Book 3)

Alex Pine

Published 2022

384 pages

Tracers in the Dark

Andy Greenberg

Published 2022

384 pages

Killing Hope US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

William Blum

Published 2022

472 pages

Ethel Rosenberg

Anne Sebba

Published 2022

The Forever Witness How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

Edward Humes

Published 2022

384 pages

Emma : Las Otras Se�oras Del Narco Emma and Other Narco Women (Spanish Edition)

Anabel Hernández

Published 2022

30 pages

A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

Mark Galeotti

Published 2022

240 pages

The Doomsday Mother

John Glatt

Published 2022

304 pages

His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner) One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa

Published 2022

432 pages

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

Everything Is Fine A Memoir

On Crimes and Punishments

Hell's Half-Acre The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier

Dead in the Water A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

We Carry Their Bones The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

Slenderman Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

The Other Dr. Gilmer Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

The Odyssey (Arcturus Gilded Classics, 5)

Lost in the Valley of Death

American Demon Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

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

Sandy Hook An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

The Borgias

Bad City Peril and Power in the City of Angels

The Winter Killer (DI James Walker series, Book 3)

Tracers in the Dark

Killing Hope US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

Ethel Rosenberg

The Forever Witness How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

Emma : Las Otras Se�oras Del Narco Emma and Other Narco Women (Spanish Edition)

A Short History of Russia: How the World's Largest Country Invented Itself, from the Pagans to Putin

The Doomsday Mother

His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner) One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

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