The most popular true crime books of 2022

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true crime books published in 2022, most popular first.

Bone Deep Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

Joel Schwartz, Charles Bosworth, Jr.

Published 2022

384 pages

The Lost Boys of Montauk The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind

Amanda M. Fairbanks

Published 2022

336 pages

Run, Hide, Repeat A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

Pauline Dakin

Published 2022

336 pages

Cults Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

Max Cutler

Published 2022

416 pages

A Killer by Design Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

Ann Wolbert Burgess

Published 2022

336 pages

The Buddhist on Death Row

David Sheff

Published 2022

272 pages

American Daughter A Memoir

Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald

Published 2022

288 pages

Tombstone The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

Tom Clavin

Published 2022

464 pages

The Taking of Jemima Boone Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America

Matthew Pearl

Published 2022

288 pages

The Quiet Americans Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts

Scott Anderson

Published 2022

576 pages

The Confidence Men How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

Margalit Fox

Published 2022

352 pages

Man in Lower Ten Illustrated

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Published 2022

236 pages

Deliberate Cruelty Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

Roseanne Montillo

Published 2022

320 pages

Couple Found Slain After a Family Murder

Mikita Brottman

Published 2022

256 pages

Cover of Butler to the World The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Butler to the World The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Oliver Bullough

Published 2022

304 pages

Scoundrel How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Sarah Weinman

Published 2022

447 pages

Victim F From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors

Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn, Nicole Weisensee Egan

Published 2022

400 pages

Golden Boy A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

John Glatt

Published 2022

352 pages

The Sewing Girl's Tale

John Wood Sweet

Published 2022

384 pages

Severed The True Story of the Black Dahlia

John Gilmore

Published 2022

240 pages

Caveat Emptor The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

Ken Perenyi

Published 2022

368 pages

Killer Triggers

Joe Kenda

Published 2022

266 pages

Nazi Billionaires The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

David de Jong

Published 2022

381 pages

Sybil, or the Two Nations

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

Published 2022

585 pages

Bone Deep Untangling the Betsy Faria Murder Case

The Lost Boys of Montauk The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind

Run, Hide, Repeat A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood

Cults Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

A Killer by Design Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

The Buddhist on Death Row

American Daughter A Memoir

Tombstone The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell

The Taking of Jemima Boone Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America

The Quiet Americans Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War - a Tragedy in Three Acts

The Confidence Men How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

Man in Lower Ten Illustrated

Deliberate Cruelty Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

Couple Found Slain After a Family Murder

Butler to the World The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Scoundrel How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Victim F From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors

Golden Boy A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

The Sewing Girl's Tale

Severed The True Story of the Black Dahlia

Caveat Emptor The Secret Life of an American Art Forger

Killer Triggers

Nazi Billionaires The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties

Sybil, or the Two Nations

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