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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Four Pounds of Pressure
Cover of Four Pounds of Pressure

Four Pounds of Pressure

Amy Briggs, Brooke Warner, Danielle Leukam

2021 · 2022 edition

258 pages