Books like Be Careful Who You Love by Diane Dimond

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.

After a tragic gunshot wound, former chief detective Carl Mørck is reassigned to cold‑case work, where he is drawn into a five‑year investigation of a missing Danish politician.

Lisa Jackson’s thriller follows a relentless serial killer targeting Montana residents, with a determined female detective racing to expose him before more innocents die.

"No Crueler Tyrannies recalls the hysteria that accompanied the child sex-abuse witch-hunts of the 1980s and 1990s: how a single anonymous phone call could bring to bear an army of recovered-memory therapists, venal and ambitious prosecutors, and hypocritical judges - an army that jailed hundreds of innocent Americans. The overarching story of No Crueler Tyrannies is that of the Amirault family, who ran the Fells Acres day care center in Malden, Massachusetts: Violet Amirault, her daughter Cheryl, and her son Gerald, victims of perhaps the most biased prosecution since the Salem witch trials. Woven into the fabric of the Amirault tragedy an unfinished story - with Gerald Amirault still incarcerated for crimes that, Rabinowitz persuasively argues, not only did he not commit, but which never happened - are other, equally alarming tales of prosecutorial terrors: the stories of Wenatchee, Washington, where the single-minded efforts of chief sex crimes investigator Robert Perez jailed dozens of his neighbors; Patrick Griffin, a respected physician whose life and reputation were destroyed by a false accusation of sexual molestation; John Carroll, a marina owner from Troy, New York, now serving ten to twenty years largely at the behest of the same expert witness used to wrongly jail Kelly Michaels fifteen years previously; and Grant Snowden, the North Miami policeman sentenced to five consecutive life terms after being prosecuted by then Dade County State Attorney Janet Reno ... who spent eleven years killing rats in various Florida prisons before a new trial affirmed his innocence." "No Crueler Tyrannies is at once a truly frightening and at the same time inspiring book, documenting how these citizens, who became targets of the justice system in which they had so much faith, came to comprehend that their lives could be destroyed, that they could be sent to prison for years - even decades. No Crueler Tyrannies shows the complicity of the courts, their hypocrisy and indifference to the claims of justice, but also the courage of those willing to challenge the runaway prosecutors and the strength of those who have endured their depredations."--Jacket.

After a 1985 incident at a New Jersey day‑care, 51 children were interviewed about sexual abuse allegations that led to the conviction of teacher Margaret Kelly Michaels on 115 criminal charges. The book examines the investigation, trial, and family impact.

The most dramatic and searing child abuse trial in America's history began when Judy Johnson told police that her two-year-old son had been molested by Raymond Buckey, a teacher at the Virginia McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. After searching the school and the homes of its owners and teachers, police distributed a letter urging parents of past and present pupils to come forward to corroborate the charge. The result was mass hysteria unlike anything experienced in America in decades. The children denied that any abuse occurred, so prosecutors hired a private clinic to evaluate and examine each child, after which parents were informed that every pupil who attended the school had been sexually abused. This revelation led to more than 200 charges being filed against Virginia McMartin, Peggy McMartin Buckey, Raymond and Peggy Ann Buckey, and three other teachers. Child witnesses testified that they were raped by their teachers, subjected to satanic rituals, and forced to watch animals being killed. Though many charges were dropped and formal indictments obtained only against Raymond and Peggy McMartin Buckey, the ensuing trials clogged the courts for over six years, at a cost to taxpayers of more than $16 million. Investigative reporters Paul and Shirley Eberle sat through the entire ordeal, from pre-trial hearings to the retrial of Raymond Buckey on 13 unresolved counts. Their compelling account of this protracted courtroom battle and the terrible toll it exacted from the defendants as well as their accusers is powerfully enhanced by a gripping description of the media's role in shaping public perceptions. The Abuse of Innocence captures the often unseen tragedies that surround an outcry for public vengeance in cases of alleged child sexual abuse: prosecutors who are willing to sacrifice justice to win; the questionable assumptions many people make about the veracity of testimony from jailhouse informants, "expert witnesses," and the children themselves; the manipulation of media reports; and the extraordinary lengths to which society is prepared to go to protect both the alleged victims of abuse and those who report alleged abusers. The Eberles quote liberally from the court record, allowing readers to reach their own conclusions about the conduct of those who played a major role in the most widely reported child abuse trial in our history, a trial that created the blueprint for prosecuting thousands of similar cases throughout North America.

Three high‑school friends are framed for the murder of their classmate; they must dismantle the crime and expose the real culprit while navigating school drama.