Books like Zero at the Bone by John Heidenry

Reinvestigation of Dr. Sam Sheppard’s 1954 murder of his wife, with new evidence pointing to an unknown killer and prompting a renewed county investigation.

"The police," said Susan Lyne to her sister, "seem to be taking an interest in your undesirable neighbors." "Quite time, too." Fiona Laslett joined her at the window and watched the policeman talking to the man from the cottage at the corner. But the police weren't interested in the neighbors, at least not yet. They were only inquiring casually about the python that had strayed from nearby Bright's Farm where the Riscoes, authors, which excused any eccentricity, kept a monkey, an eagle owl, a goshawk, and a peregrine falcon. The police would return when the body of the blonde girl from the cottage was found in a patch of brambles. With them would come Conrad, young reporter for the local paper, and then Susan's lost love and his new wife would move into the cottage on the lane. The murder launches the reader into a classical puzzle with an ingenious mystery involving real and likable people. The problems of training the falcon and the goshawk are important, and so are the trusting python and the wry and charming love story.

Sharon Marshall, a brilliant and beautiful student, was drawn into a lifetime of deception by her murderous fugitive father, creating one of America’s most baffling criminal cases.

A Philadelphia schoolteacher and her two children were brutally murdered, allegedly as part of an insurance fraud plot.

When a father asks the Boston Herald for help finding his missing daughter, a commercial artist, a photo release sparks a murder investigation that dives into Boston’s red‑light district and a prestigious university lab.

A factual investigation into the high‑profile kidnapping and murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, detailing how a woman with a traumatic past committed the crime.

A gripping legal thriller about a prosecutor's quest for justice after a brutal murder in Washington, D.C.