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From the chilling In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, to Robert Sabbag's cocaine classic Snowblind via John Dickie's wonderful study of the Mafia, Cosa Nostra, here you’ll find our most popular true crime classics and the most chilling new real-life crime stories. Enjoy your reading and remember, don't have nightmares.
Our Best True Crime Books
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An exhaustive, sumptuously presented guide to some of the nineteenth-century’s most iconic slaughters, Murder Maps delineates not just the cartographic angle to the crimes but also details developments in police methods and scientific and technological breakthroughs.
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The best true crime classics
Cruel Britannia
The best British true crime books
The Past is a Dangerous Place
The best historical true crime books
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The best books on the drug trade
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The best prison books
War on the Street
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The best books on the Mafia
Keep it in the Family
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