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Books like Transnational Organised Crime

Loved Transnational Organised Crime by Adam Edwards? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from true crime, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Killers of the Flower Moon

    David Grann · 2017 · True Crime

    The murders of wealthy Osage people and the birth of the FBI; a riveting, important investigation.

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    In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote · 1966 · True Crime

    A Kansas farm-family murder reconstructed in novelistic detail; the book that created the true-crime genre.

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    Under the Banner of Heaven

    Jon Krakauer · 2003 · True Crime

    Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extr

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    Cape May Court House

    Lawrence Schiller · 2002 · True Crime

    No one in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, was surprised when Eric Thomas, a popular young doctor, sued Ford Motor Company for the wrongful death of his pregnant wife, Tracy. The accident they were i

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    Cosa Nostra

    John Dickie · 2004 · True Crime

    From the mafia's origins in the 1860s to its current tense relationship with the Berlusconi government, this is a vivid and gripping history of the Sicilian Mafia's inner sanctum.

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    Black mass

    Dick Lehr · 2001 · True Crime

    John Connolly and James "Whitey" Bulger grew up together on the tough streets of South Boston. Decades later in the mid-1970s, they met again. By then, Connolly was a major figure in the FBI's Boston

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    Syndromes of Corruption

    Michael Johnston · 2005 · True Crime

    A sophisticated analysis of four main types of corruption in developed and developing countries.

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    The Best American Crime Writing 2005

    Thomas H. Cook · 2005 · True Crime

    The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves

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    The Innocent Man

    John Grisham · 2006 · True Crime

    Murder and injustice in a small townJohn Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league

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    Beyond the Body Farm

    William M. Bass · 2007 · True Crime

    There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition—three acres of land o

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