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Books like Killers of the Flower Moon

Loved Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann? 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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    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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    Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime

    Ben Blum · 2017 · True Crime

    Documents the story of an aspiring U.S. Army Ranger who inexplicably participated in an armed robbery hours before being deployed to Iraq, investigating the influence of the young man's superior and t

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    I'll Be Gone in the Dark

    Michelle McNamara · 2018 · True Crime

    One writer's obsessive hunt for the Golden State Killer; haunting and meticulously reported.

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    Say Nothing

    Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018 · True Crime

    A disappearance during the Troubles opens onto a whole history of violence and memory; superb narrative nonfiction.

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    A Mother's Reckoning

    Sue Klebold · 2016 · True Crime

    On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In a matter of minutes, they killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded twenty-four oth

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    Billion dollar whale

    Tom (Wall Street Journal reporter) Wright · 2018 · True Crime

    Two Pulitzer-finalist Wall Street Journal reporters document the true story of how a young social climber orchestrated one of history's biggest financial heists, exposing the secret nexus of elite wea

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    Catch and Kill

    Ronan Farrow · 2018 · True Crime

    In this newly updated edition of the “meticulous and devastating” (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes se

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    Filthy rich

    James Patterson · 2016 · True Crime

    Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers and for people, Epstein amassed his wealth through a

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    The good mothers

    Alex Perry · 2018 · True Crime

    "An unprecedented look inside a ruthless and obscenely wealthy branch of the Italian Mafia and the electrifying story of the brave women who decided to fight back"--

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    The real Lolita

    Sarah Weinman · 2018 · True Crime

    "In 1948, Sally Horner was just eleven years old when she was kidnapped by a man claiming to be an FBI agent. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, perhaps the most seminal novel of th

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