Got Warrants? Dispatches from the Dooryard
Timothy Cotton
Published 2021
224 pages
The most popular true crime books of 2021
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 2021.
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Evil Roman Emperors The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero and More
Phillip Barlag
Published 2021
240 pages
The Science of Serial Killers The Truth Behind Ted Bundy, Lizzie Borden, Jack the Ripper, and Other Notorious Murderers of Cinematic Legend
Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence
Published 2021
264 pages
The Husband Poisoner Suburban Women Who Killed in Post-World War II Sydney
Tanya Bretherton
Published 2021
320 pages
Mad Travelers A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth
Dave Seminara
Published 2021
256 pages
Madoff Talks
Jim Campbell
Published 2021
352 pages
The Director My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover
Paul Letersky
Published 2021
320 pages
David Fincher
Adam Nayman, Bong Joon Ho, Little White Little White Lies
Published 2021
303 pages
Homicide at Rough Point
Peter Lance
Published 2021
412 pages
The Psychology of Notorious Serial Killers The Intersection of Personality Theory and the Darkest Minds of Our Time
Todd Grande
Published 2021
190 pages
Built on a Lie The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England's Money
Owen Walker
Published 2021
241 pages
Life In The Uniform Adventures of an IPS Officer in Bihar
Amit Lodha
Published 2021
288 pages
Giovanni's Ring My Life Inside the Real Sopranos
Giovanni Rocco, Douglas Schofield
Published 2021
243 pages
Missing Persons
Steve Braunias
Published 2021
264 pages
Safecracker
Dave McOmie
Published 2021
248 pages
Working for Justice
Amy B. Chesler
Published 2021
224 pages
Agent Sniper The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
Tim Tate
Published 2021
416 pages
Cut Short
Ciaran Thapar
Published 2021
368 pages
Blood, Powder, and Residue How Crime Labs Translate Evidence Into Proof
Beth A. Bechky
Published 2021
227 pages
Gun to the Head My Life As a Tactical Cop. the Impact. the Aftermath
Keith Banks
Published 2021
288 pages
Deliberate Evil Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader
Edward J. Renehan
2021 · 2022 edition
256 pages
Sins of Fathers A Spectacular Break from a Criminal, Dark Past
Michael Emmett, Harriet Compston, Jonathan Aitken
Published 2021
224 pages
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
Osvaldo Zavala
2021 · 2022 edition
193 pages
Killer Looks The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
Zara Stone
Published 2021
360 pages