Booklist
True Crime Documentaries and Books
Do you enjoy tales that scare and fascinate you and have the added element of being true? Ever found yourself glued to the TV when Dateline NBC, The First 48, or Cold Justice comes on? Then you will probably like true crime (if you are not already reading it).
To get started, try the selections below to sample the true crime books and documentaries in Richland Library's collection.
Bonnie & Clyde
Published in 2016
Capturing the Friedmans
Published in 2004
Cartel Land
Published in 2016
The Central Park Five
Published in 2013
Cropsey
Published in 2011
The Invisible War
Published in 2012
The Jinx the Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
Published in 2015
A Murder in the Park
Published in 2015
The Seven Five
Published in 2015
The Thin Blue Line
Published in 1988
The Witness
Published in 2016
The Brothers Bulger
How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century
Published in 2006
Columbine
Published in 2009
Midnight in Peking
How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
Published in 2012
The Lost Girls
The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus
Published in 2015
Under the Bridge
Published in 2005
The Devil in the White City
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Published in 2003
Fatal Vision
Published in 2012
People Who Eat Darkness
The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Published in 2012
The Monster of Florence
Published in 2008
The Stranger Beside Me
Published in 2009
God'll Cut You Down
The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi
Published in 2014
Author
Chantal W.
Research and Readers' Advisory Manager
British mystery show addict and lover of fantasy, romance and mystery novels.