Today, we bring to you 10 best true crime books you should read that have taken place all over the world.
Considered the #1 true crime book, this novel is an insider’s account of the atrocious Tate-LaBlianca murder by the mastermind Charles Manson and his followers.
This is one of the most acclaimed and beloved true crime novels of all time. It deals with the brutal murder of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959.
When we think of true crime novels, we think of murder, theft and espionage. Yet sexual and domestic abuse is also a criminal offense by law,..
This is a study of Andrei Chikatilo, or Citizen Chi as he was called in the Soviet. He was a member of the Communist Party and guilty of a chain of murders.
This true crime novel explores two things. Firstly, the kidnapping of the eleven year old Sally Horner by the middle aged pedophile Frank La Salle.
Again a lesser known book in this genre, ‘True Crime Writings in Colonial India’ offers a crime investigative perspective
This wonderfully paced book is a fictional imagination of a true crime that occurred in Canada in 1843.
A relatively unknown book in the genre of true crime, this book is a series of essays on unsolved crimes in Japan.
This book is perhaps the most moving one on this list, because it is told from the lens of the victim’s mother.
As the title suggests, this is the non-fictional account of Paun Ogorzow, a serial killer in Nazi Germany.