BVBook Verdict

If you liked

Books like In Cold Blood

Loved In Cold Blood by Truman Capote? 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

    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

    Portrait of a Killer

    Patricia Cornwell · 1960 · True Crime

    "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

  3. 3

    The profession of violence

    John Pearson · 1972 · True Crime

    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

  4. 4

    The onion field

    Joseph Wambaugh · 1973 · True Crime

    Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story

  5. 5

    The complete Jack the Ripper

    Donald Rumbelow · 1975 · True Crime

    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

  6. 6

    The only living witness

    Stephen G. Michaud · 1983 · True Crime

    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

  7. 7

    Frozen in time

    Owen Beattie · 1987 · True Crime

    xvii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm

  8. 8

    Small sacrifices

    Ann Rule · 1987 · True Crime

    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

  9. 9

    The blooding

    Joseph Wambaugh · 1989 · True Crime

    Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains u

  10. 10

    Homicide

    David Simon · 1991 · True Crime

    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

Browse wider