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Books like Filthy rich

Loved Filthy rich by James Patterson? 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.

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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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    All Dressed in White

    Mary Higgins Clark · 2015 · True Crime

    Five years ago, Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in a lavish ceremony at The Grand Victoria Hotel in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Aman

  5. 5

    Hope

    Amanda Berry · 2015 · True Crime

    On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for ten yea

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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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    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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