Don't Be a Victim
Nancy Grace
Published 2020
384 pages
The most popular true crime books of 2020
True crime tells the stories of real crimes and the people caught up in them. Murders, heists, frauds and cold cases are reconstructed from evidence, trials and interviews. The best of these books care about the victims and the investigation as much as the criminal. Expect careful reporting and stories that are hard to forget. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Breaking Dad
James Lubbock, Warren Fitzgerald
Published 2020
356 pages
Killer Cults
Stephen Singular
Published 2020
320 pages
Pattaya Youtuber And Other True Stories from Thailand
Walt Gleeson
Published 2020
210 pages
These are Not Gentle People A True Story
Andrew Harding
2020 · 2022 edition
260 pages
China's Gilded Age The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
Yuen Yuen Ang
2020 · 2021 edition
273 pages
The Language of Thieves
Martin Puchner
Published 2020
288 pages
Line of Duty - the Real Story of British Police Corruption
Wensley Clarkson
Published 2020
304 pages
Electric Blue
Paul Verhoeven
Published 2020
336 pages
Lord High Executioner The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia
Frank DiMatteo, Michael Benson
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
The Lady of Sing Sing
Idanna Pucci
Published 2020
304 pages
Lawyer X
Patrick Carlyon, Anthony Dowsley
2020 · 2021 edition
400 pages
Grace from the Rubble Two Fathers' Road to Reconciliation After the Oklahoma City Bombing
Jeanne Bishop
Published 2020
224 pages
Gunning for the Godman The True Story Behind Asaram Bapu's Conviction
Ajay Lamba
Published 2020
210 pages
Ballad of the Bullet Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
Forrest Stuart
Published 2020
273 pages
Atomic Spy The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
Nancy Thorndike Greenspan
2020 · 2021 edition
416 pages
From Crime to Crime Harold Shipman to Operation Midland - 17 Cases That Shocked the World
Richard Henriques
2020 · 2021 edition
336 pages
Natalie Wood The Complete Biography
Suzanne Finstad
Published 2020
592 pages
Don Carlo Boss of Bosses
James Pierre, Paul Meskil
Published 2020
316 pages
The Dirty Dozen The real story of the rise and fall of London's most feared armed robbery gang
Noel 'Razor' Smith
Published 2020
288 pages
Birdy
Dee Garcia
Published 2020
333 pages
The Deaths of Sybil Bolton Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation
Dennis McAuliffe
Published 2020
352 pages
Black Hands Inside the Bain Family Murders
Martin Van Beynen
Published 2020
304 pages
The Serial Killer Cookbook
Ashley Lecker
Published 2020
100 pages