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Loved Small sacrifices by Ann Rule? 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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  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    Frozen in time

    Owen Beattie · 1987 · True Crime

    xvii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm

  4. 4

    The blooding

    Joseph Wambaugh · 1989 · True Crime

    Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains u

  5. 5

    The only living witness

    Stephen G. Michaud · 1983 · True Crime

    Michaud and Aynesworth are a reporter and an investigator team who interviewed serial killer Ted Bundy while he was on death row in Florida. This volume chronicles his activities throughout several st

  6. 6

    Homicide

    David Simon · 1991 · True Crime

    The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of har

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    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    John Berendt · 1994 · True Crime

    A killing and the eccentric world of Savannah, Georgia; atmospheric and richly told.

  8. 8

    Mindhunter

    John E. Douglas · 1995 · True Crime

    Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of th

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    The rapist's wife

    Kathryn Casey · 1995 · True Crime

    Several months into her idyllic marriage, Linda Bergstrom notices a change in her husband, he becomes rough and demanding. Soon after, he is accused of being a local serial rapist, but the case is dro

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    The Monster of Florence

    Magdalen Nabb · 1996 · True Crime

    Marshal Guarnaccia feels out of his league when he is assigned to help track down a serial killer, especially when he assigned to work under Simonetti, a man so dedicated to achieving a conviction tha

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