Books like While the city slept by Eli Sanders

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

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.

A 2012 crime thriller that explores a marriage in turmoil as one wife disappears, leaving her husband to confront suspicion and secrets.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

A suspenseful look inside the seemingly perfect marriage of Jack and Grace, where love, secrecy, and abuse mask a household of hidden violence.

A snowbound Catskills inn turns deadly as guests are washed out of contact during a blizzard, and one by one they begin to die in what seems like a sinister murder mystery.

A true‑crime investigation of Stacy Peterson’s disappearance, based on exclusive interviews and in‑depth research by reporter Joseph Hosey.

An investigative reporter tracks the long‑timed serial killer who has murdered women in South Central Los Angeles since the 1980s, uncovering the case’s alleged identity.

No Regrets is a true‑crime book by Ann Rule that examines murder and cold‑case investigations in the United States.

American Honor Killings exposes a series of murders involving gay and straight men, tracing hate, bullying, and identity struggles from 1999 to recent convictions across Alabama, San Quentin, and New York.

Marc Schultz, Olympic gold‑winning wrestler, recounts the fatal affair between his brother Dave and eccentric billionaire John du Pont at Foxcatcher Farms, where a 1996 murder and two‑day standoff ended with du Pont’s arrest.

An investigative chronicle of violent crimes in Virginia, focusing on rape and murder case studies and the criminal inquiry methods used by law enforcement, including forensic analysis and investigative protocols.

True‑crime account of Regina Hartwell, a wealthy Texas drug dealer, whose obsession with young Kim LeBlanc ends in a fatal stabbing and arson.

A detailed case study of a United States murder investigation that incorporates parapsychological approaches into the investigative process.

An exhaustive true‑crime account of Ed Gein, the Wisconsin farmhand whose murders and grave‑robbing shocked America in 1957, revealing the depths of deviant behavior and the social conditions that framed his crimes.

A harrowing true story of a women's complex plan to claim her child by kidnapping an infant and murdering the biological mother, written from the victim’s perspective.

A lyrical and haunting depiction of American racial violence and lynching, evoked through stunning full-color artwork. In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary Turner names those who were killed, identifies the killers, and evokes a landscape in which the NAACP investigated the crimes when the state would not, when white citizens baked pies and flocked to see black corpses, and when black people fought to make their lives—and their mourning—matter. With introductions from C. Tyrone Forehand, great grand-nephew of Mary and Hayes Turner, whose family has long campaigned for the deaths to be remembered; abolitionist activist and educator Mariame Kaba, reflecting on the violence visited on black women’s bodies; and historian Julie Buckner Armstrong, who opens a window onto the broader scale of lynching’s terror in American history.