Books like Duel with the devil by Collins, Paul

A chilling, factual account of the 1959 shotgun murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members were killed with no clear motive or clues.

In 1893 Chicago, Erik Larson weaves the story of visionary architect Daniel Burnham and the cunning serial killer H.H. Holmes, whose crimes unfolded against the backdrop of the World’s Columbian Exposition.

A Pulitzer‑winning historical novel that dramatizes the four‑day Battle of Gettysburg from the viewpoints of Union and Confederate leaders.

John E. Douglas recounts his 25‑year career in the FBI Behavioral Science Unit, detailing how psychological profiling helped him solve some of the nation’s most infamous serial killings.

An engaging exploration of the 1854 London cholera outbreak and how Dr. John Snow’s mapping of the epidemic transformed public health, urban planning, and the science of disease transmission.

In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a huge crowd gathers at a Paris monastery to watch the two men fight a duel to the death meant to "prove" which man's cause is right in God's sight. The dramatic true story of the knight, the squire, and the lady unfolds during the devastating Hundred Years' War between France and England, as enemy troops pillage the land, madness haunts the French court, the Great Schism splits the Church, Muslim armies threaten Christendom, and rebellion, treachery, and plague turn the lives of all into toys of Fortune. At the heart of the tale is Jean de Carrouges, a Norman knight who returns from combat in Scotland to find his wife, Marguerite, accusing Jacques Le Gris, her husband's old friend and fellow courtier, of brutally raping her. The knight takes his cause before the teenage King Charles VI, the highest judge in France. Amid Le Gris's vociferous claims of innocence and doubts about the now pregnant Marguerite's charges (and about the paternity of her child), the deadlocked court decrees a "trial by combat" that leaves her fate, too, in the balance. For if her husband and champion loses the duel, she will be put to death as a false accuser. Carrouges and Le Gris, in full armor, eventually meet on a walled field in Paris before a massive crowd that includes the king and many nobles of the realm. A fierce fight on horseback and then on foot ensues during which both combatants suffer wounds, but only one is fatal. The violent and tragic episode was notorious in its time owing to the nature of the alleged crime, the legal impasse it provoked, and the resulting trial by combat, an ancient but increasingly suspect institution that was thereafter abolished. - Jacket flap.

John Follain provides a factual account of the Meredith Kercher murder investigation and the subsequent trials, detailing police work, legal proceedings, and the ultimate acquittals of Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito, and Rudy Guede.

Former football star and drug dealer trades freedom for coaxing a confession from a serial killer.

Amanda Knox recounts her four‑year imprisonment in Italy for the murder of Meredith Kercher, detailing her fight against injustice, media vilification, and the Italian legal system before ultimately securing her freedom.

Irish nationalists in Chicago join a secret group dedicated to driving the English out of Ireland. A schism develops over whether or not dynamite is a justifiable persuasion technique, and over the character of the leader of the pro-dynamite faction. After causing difficulties for the pro-dynamite faction, a prominent member of the anti-dynamite faction is murdered. The wheels of justice commence their slow grind.