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Loved The corner by David Simon? 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

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    Understanding Violence

    Elizabeth Kandel Englander · 1997 · True Crime

    "In this book, Elizabeth Kandel Englander sorts, structures, and evaluates violence hypotheses. She draws on contemporary research and theory in varied fields - clinical and social psychology, sociolo

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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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    Dead by Sunset

    Ann Rule · 1995 · True Crime

    The first 464 pages of this book are standard Ann Rule. A beautiful, brilliant attorney marries a psychopath and suffers dreadfully for her choice of mate. She bears him three beautiful, brilliant lit

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    Destination

    James Ellroy · 1999 · True Crime

    Collection of crime stories, some fiction, some nonfiction.

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    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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    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.

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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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