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Books like The Havana mob

Loved The Havana mob by T. J. English? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from true crime, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    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.

  4. 4

    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.

  5. 5

    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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    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

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    Beyond the Body Farm

    William M. Bass · 2007 · True Crime

    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

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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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    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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