The most popular true crime books of 2025

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true crime books published in 2025, most popular first.

Counterfeited in China The Operations of Illicit Businesses

Ko-lin Chin

Published 2025

303 pages

Buying Silence How oligarchs, corporations and plutocrats use the law to gag their critics

David Hooper

Published 2025

352 pages

Executed

Robert Harriman

Published 2025

224 pages

The Mother Next Door Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber

Published 2025

304 pages

Chasing the Devil My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

David Reichert

Published 2025

320 pages

The Resurrected Pirate

Craig S. Chapman

Published 2025

256 pages

Wicked Lexington, North Carolina

Alice E. Sink

Published 2025

131 pages

Inside the Cartel How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash, and Dismantled a Colombian Narco-Empire

Martin Suarez, Ian Frisch

Published 2025

304 pages

After Etan The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive

Lisa R. Cohen

Published 2025

402 pages

Mortal Sins Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal

Michael D'Antonio

Published 2025

418 pages

Great Impersonation

Edward Phillips Oppenheim

Published 2025

326 pages

The Mission The CIA in the 21st Century

Tim Weiner

Published 2025

464 pages

The Chain Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us

Chimene Suleyman

Published 2025

240 pages

Challenging the Mafia of Calabria Dismantling ‘Ndrangheta Organized Crime

Vincent C. Figliomeni

Published 2025

210 pages

V is for Venom Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death

Kathryn Harkup

Published 2025

320 pages

Out of Control The Clara Harris Murder Case

Steven Long

Published 2025

396 pages

False Claims One Insider's Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption

Lisa Pratta

Published 2025

288 pages

The Cleveland John Doe Case Fifty States of Crime

Thibault Raisse

Published 2025

192 pages

A Cold Case

Philip Gourevitch

Published 2025

193 pages

Lockerbie A Father's Search for Justice (Now a TV Series Starring Colin Firth)

Peter Biddulph, Jim Swire

Published 2025

304 pages

The Collapse of Barings

Stephen Fay

Published 2025

324 pages

Anatomy of a Ponzi Scheme

Colleen Cross

Published 2025

280 pages

Organising White-Collar and Corporate Crimes

Michael Levi, Nicholas Lord

Published 2025

208 pages

Cover of The Killing Fields of East New York The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood

The Killing Fields of East New York The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood

Stacy Horn

Published 2025

352 pages

Counterfeited in China The Operations of Illicit Businesses

Buying Silence How oligarchs, corporations and plutocrats use the law to gag their critics

Executed

The Mother Next Door Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

Chasing the Devil My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

The Resurrected Pirate

Wicked Lexington, North Carolina

Inside the Cartel How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash, and Dismantled a Colombian Narco-Empire

After Etan The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive

Mortal Sins Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal

Great Impersonation

The Mission The CIA in the 21st Century

The Chain Love, Betrayal, and the Sisterhood That Heals Us

Challenging the Mafia of Calabria Dismantling ‘Ndrangheta Organized Crime

V is for Venom Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death

Out of Control The Clara Harris Murder Case

False Claims One Insider's Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption

The Cleveland John Doe Case Fifty States of Crime

A Cold Case

Lockerbie A Father's Search for Justice (Now a TV Series Starring Colin Firth)

The Collapse of Barings

Anatomy of a Ponzi Scheme

Organising White-Collar and Corporate Crimes

The Killing Fields of East New York The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood

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