Books like The Michigan murders by Edward Keyes

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 true‑crime chronicle that follows editor Michelle McNamara’s obsessive investigation of the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer who terrorized California for decades.

A true chronicle of Christopher Knight, who vanished in 1986 and spent 27 years living alone in a Maine forest, surviving by stealth, wit, and occasional theft.

Ann Rule’s true‑crime biography exposes the chilling rise of serial killer Ted Bundy and the devastating realization she faced when she discovered the killer was her friend.

An investigative narrative that traces the lives of five Craigslist‑working prostitutes and the circumstances that led to their tragic deaths on a Long Island beach in 2010.

A precise, ten‑year investigation into the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that uncovers the truth behind the myth and examines the killers, victims, and community response.

A true‑crime account of Princeton‑educated Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a former U.S. Marine, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two children in 1970, and the chilling investigation that followed.

A frantic hunt in London as former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter leads Private London to stop a killer abducting young women, while his past connections threaten to surface.

Pat Brown, a pioneering female criminal profiler, shares firsthand insights into her investigations of sex crimes, domestic murders, and mysterious deaths, revealing how psychological analysis unlocks new investigative avenues.

With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting. -Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights "A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine's Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe." -Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. The next day, on Kehoe's farm, what was left of his wife-burned beyond recognition after Kehoe set his property and buildings ablaze-was found tied to a handcart, her skull crushed. With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism and large-scale murder are nothing new. A native of Chicago, Arnie Bernstein is the author of The Hoofs and Guns of the Storm: Chicago's Civil War Connections and Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies. He is the winner of a Puffin Foundation Grant and Midwest Regional History Publishing honors.

Peter Haining explores the possibility that the infamous barber Sweeney Todd was a real 18th‑century London criminal, shaped and victimized by the era’s poverty and underworld crime.

A gripping true crime story of serial killings by Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, featuring the author's investigative approach and examination of Victorian sexual tensions and fears.