If you liked
Books like Under the Banner of Heaven
Loved Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer? 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
The murders of wealthy Osage people and the birth of the FBI; a riveting, important investigation.
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In Cold Blood
A Kansas farm-family murder reconstructed in novelistic detail; the book that created the true-crime genre.
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Transnational Organised Crime
The origins & perceptions of transnational organised crime are discussed in this book. The authors contend that the ways in which such crime is constructed as an 'external' threat obscures the reality
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Cape May Court House
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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5
Cosa Nostra
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
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
A sophisticated analysis of four main types of corruption in developed and developing countries.
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The Best American Crime Writing 2005
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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9
The Innocent Man
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
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