Books like Murder in America by Stephen T. Holmes

Jon Krakauer investigates the shocking murder of two sisters by Mormon fundamentalist brothers, revealing the violent undercurrents of a fringe sect and the broader tensions within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‑Saints.

A true crime investigation into the political machinations of a transnational power bloc known as The Octopus.

Dead by Sunset is a gripping true‑crime case study that examines the homicide of Cheryl Brad, delving into her marriage to the psychopath she called Tall, her legal career, and the court’s handling of the murder trial in Oregon.

In Joe Pickett’s latest adventure, his daughter April goes missing and a girl’s body is found—poisoning the lives of a rodeo champion and the game‑warden world. Pickett must uncover the truth before danger turns deadly.

During the autumn of 1922, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald chart their return to New York as the city’s roaring glamour turns to tragedy with the unsolved Mills‑Hall double murder—an event that shaped the genesis of *The Great Gatsby*.

Randolph Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. He argues that the United States is distinctive in its level of violence among unrelated adults--friends, acquaintances, and strangers. America was extraordinarily homicidal in the mid-seventeenth century, but it became relatively non-homicidal by the mid-eighteenth century. Then the homicide rate skyrocketed from the late 1840s through the mid-1870s, while rates in most other Western nations held steady or fell. That surge--and all subsequent increases in the homicide rate--correlated closely with four distinct phenomena: political instability; a loss of government legitimacy; a loss of fellow-feeling among members of society caused by racial, religious, or political antagonism; and a loss of faith in the social hierarchy. Those four factors, Roth argues, best explain why homicide rates have gone up and down over the past four centuries, and why the United States is today the most homicidal affluent nation.--From publisher description.

When Ali’s parents lose their life savings in a Ponzi scheme, her father becomes a suspect after a double homicide, and Ali and her husband fight to clear his name and bring justice to victims, including a cold‑blooded killer.

Karen Halttunen traces how American perceptions of murder have evolved from early New England religious sermons to modern socio‑psychological analyses.

A nonfiction guide that explores how Hollywood has turned notorious American criminals—such as Ma Barker, Al Capone, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Starkweather—into legends or villains, blending film, music, and true‑crime facts.

A chilling biography of Canadian wrestler Chris Benoit, exploring his rise to fame and the shocking double-murder/suicide that ended his career in 2007.

A true crime investigation following the murder of nineteen‑year‑old Mark Fisher, a college football star from New York City.

Adam Selzer’s biography of H. H. Holmes reveals the Chicago serial killer’s use of the 1893 World’s Fair crowds to orchestrate a network of murders, drawing on unpublished primary sources for a vivid historical portrait.