Dark Screens Hackers and Heroes in the Shadowy World of Ransomware
Anja Shortland
Published 2026
320 pages
The most popular true crime books of 2026
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 2026.
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Doubleday
Published 2026
368 pages
Zodiactually The Real Story of a Fake Serial Killer
Eddie McNamara
Published 2026
280 pages
Murder and the Media Behind the Scenes of Four High Profile Murders
Allison Hope Weiner
Published 2026
240 pages
The Bundy Archive Genealogies of White Masculinity
Bryan J. McCann
Published 2026
278 pages
City on Trial Tolerance and Fear in New York
Michael Greenberg
Published 2026
144 pages
Black Mafia Queen How I Co-Founded the BMF Empire, Paid the Price, and Found Redemption
Tonesa Welch, Harold Corey Mills
Published 2026
240 pages
The Best Part of Prison The Power of Second Chances and Reclaiming Life Out of Darkness
Jesse Crosson
Published 2026
328 pages
The Oracle's Daughter The Rise and Fall of an American Cult
Harrison Hill
Published 2026
368 pages
Jack the Ripper? Edward Buckley
Jonathan Tye
Published 2026
184 pages
Borgata
Louis Ferrante
Published 2026
432 pages
Four Died Trying
John Kirby, Mark Crispin Miller, Libby Handros
Published 2026
320 pages
Understanding Rose West
C R Axford
Published 2026
224 pages
Living with Conviction
Toby Dorr
Published 2026
230 pages
Shaken - Limited Edition
John Grisham
Published 2026
368 pages
Dream Dealer From Prisoner to Professor - the Extraordinary Life of Greg Newbold
Greg Newbold
Published 2026
304 pages
What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane? A Memoir and a Murder Investigation
Kate Crane
Published 2026
304 pages
The Idaho Murders Uncovering the Tragedy That Shocked the World
James Patterson
Published 2026
400 pages
The Hope Street Bodies in the Cellar Scandal
John Gannon
Published 2026
160 pages
The Women Are Not Fine The True Story Behind the Greatest Female-Led Poisoning Scandal in Modern History
Hope Reese
Published 2026
288 pages
White Pines and Stone The Hunt for the Springfield Three
Christopher Whitcomb, Dylan Mcdermott
Published 2026
320 pages
Scam Nation
Kaf Okpattah
Published 2026
240 pages
Queen Bee and the Murder of Bugsy Siegel Closing the Case on the Killing of an American Gangster
Stuart Sobel
Published 2026
192 pages
On the Trail of the Kray Twins
Mark Davis, RICHARD CHARLES. DAVIS COBB (MARK.)
Published 2026
224 pages