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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Killing the Mob
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Killing the Mob

Bill O'Reilly, 比爾.歐萊利, Martin Dugard, 馬汀.杜格

Published 2021

292 pages

Sex Cult Nun
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Sex Cult Nun

Faith Jones

Published 2021

400 pages

A Taste for Poison
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A Taste for Poison

Neil Bradbury, Нил Брэдбери

2021 · 2022 edition

304 pages

Zero Fail
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Zero Fail

Carol Leonnig

Published 2021

560 pages

Nowhere Girl
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Nowhere Girl

Cheryl Diamond

2021 · 2022 edition

320 pages

Betrayal
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Betrayal

Jonathan Karl

Published 2021

384 pages

Flying Blind
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Flying Blind

Peter Robison

2021 · 2022 edition

336 pages

Stolen
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Stolen

Elizabeth Gilpin

Published 2021

336 pages

Paradise
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Paradise

Lizzie Johnson

Published 2021

432 pages

Ordinary Heroes
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Ordinary Heroes

Joseph Pfeifer

2021 · 2026 edition

281 pages

The Key Man
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The Key Man

Simon Clark, Will Louch

2021 · 2023 edition

352 pages