Just for You! -- Tales of True CrimeLike this list

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• In Cold Blood

  a True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

  Capote, Truman, 1924-1984

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  Truman Capote's account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for their killers set the bar for true crime stories. A classic in every sense of the word.

• The Stranger Beside Me

  Rule, Ann,

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  Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, worked in a Seattle crisis clinic and was a serial killer. Imagine the author's surprise when she discovers her caring and compassionate co-worker was wanted for the brutal murder of more than 30 women.

• Chase Darkness With Me

  How One True-crime Writer Started Solving Murders

  Jensen, Billy,

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  After writing about unsolved murders for 15 years, journalist Billy Jensen had enough. He decided to try using social media to solve the murders himself.

• Lost Girls

  An Unsolved American Mystery

  Kolker, Robert,

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  Lost Girls is a portrait of the unsolved murders of five Craigslist escorts on Long Island, the underside of the Internet, and the secrets we keep without admitting to ourselves that we keep them.

• The Feather Thief

  Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

  Johnson, Kirk W.,

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  What do a 20-year-old American flautist, the British Museum of Natural Science and salmon-fly tyers have in common? Find out in this superbly told tale of theft, greed and obsession.

• The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

  the Murder at Road Hill House

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  Jack Wilcher, a true-life Victorian detective, became the inspiration for many crime writers such as Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie is based on the book of the same name by Kate Summerscale.

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