The most popular fraud books of 2021

Books about fraud are about brilliant lies. Con artists, forgers, fake heirs and financial schemers win trust and take everything, until the story falls apart. True accounts of famous swindles sit beside novels that let you enjoy the con from the inside. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.

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The Key Man
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The Key Man

Simon Clark, Will Louch

Published 2021

352 pages

Family
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Family

Owen Mullen

Published 2021

384 pages

Golden Boy
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Golden Boy

John Glatt

Published 2021

304 pages

Fall
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Fall

John Preston

Published 2021

352 pages

Lula
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Lula

2021 · 2024 edition

320 pages

Dirty Gold
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Dirty Gold

Nicholas Nehamas, Jay Weaver, Jim Wyss, Kyra Gurney

2021 · 2024 edition

384 pages

Madoff Talks
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Madoff Talks

Jim Campbell

Published 2021

352 pages