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Books like The onion field
Loved The onion field by Joseph Wambaugh? 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
A Kansas farm-family murder reconstructed in novelistic detail; the book that created the true-crime genre.
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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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The profession of violence
John Pearson details the lives of Reggie and Ronnie Kray, the infamous brothers who, for decades, ruled the criminal underground in London's East End. This biography of the identical twins is, at time
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The complete Jack the Ripper
Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper... It is 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostit
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The only living witness
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
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Portrait of a Killer
"Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise
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Frozen in time
xvii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm
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Small sacrifices
the mesmerizing story of Diane Downs, a beautiful, brillient, sociopath, who commits the ultimate evil when she shoots her three children to gain the love of a married man. Anne Rule's insight into th
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Homicide
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
A killing and the eccentric world of Savannah, Georgia; atmospheric and richly told.