18 books like Dead Run

What to read after Dead Run — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

A rip in Heaven Jeanine Cummins · 2004 · ★ 4.2 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath...one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe. Shares Case studies, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares True Crime, Biography & Memoir with this book.

No way of knowing Pamela Donovan · 2003 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Case studies, True Crime, General with this book.

The private diary of Lyle Menendez Lyle Menendez · 1993 · ★ 4.6 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The personal story of Lyle Menendez is based on a four-and-a-half-year intimate correspondence with the author and covers the murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez by Lyle and his brother Erik and the court trials that ended in hung juries. Shares Case studies, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Death of a princess Thomas Sancton · 1998 · ★ 3.6 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Infamous Crimes And Criminals, True Crime, General, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Cass Cass Pennant · 2001 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Criminals & Outlaws, True Crime, General, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Blind Faith Joe McGinniss · 1981 · ★ 3.7 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The Marshalls were the model family of Tom’s River, New Jersey, living the American dream of all that money could buy. Rob Marshall was the big breadwinner, king of the country club set. Maria Marshall was his stunningly beautiful wife and the perfect mom to their three great kids. Then one night Rob, his head bloodied, reported Maria had been brutally slain. Sympathy poured in—until… Shares Case studies, True Crime

Bringing Adam home Les Standiford · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This is the story of an unfathomable crime that would forever embed itself into the collective American psyche and lead to sweeping legislative changes in the way that missing person cases are handled. In 1981, Adam Walsh was a healthy and bright 6 1/2 year old boy with his entire life ahead of him. On the afternoon of July 27th, Adam accompanied his mom, Revé, to the local Sears department store… Shares Case studies, True Crime, General

Hit #29 Joey. · 1974 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares Criminals & Outlaws, Case studies, True Crime, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Crimes of Passion Howard Engel · 2001 · 239p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The very term "crimes of passion" evokes deep-seated, atavistic responses in everyone's heart. These are the crimes that are born in the emotional core of women and men who are pushed to do the unthinkable. There are never - well, hardly ever - any of the crass considerations of financial gain, no taint of reward; only release. These crimes are direct responses to betrayal, to broken hearts and… Shares Case studies, True Crime

The Bobbed Haired Bandit Stephen Duncombe · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This book explores a real married couple who decided that they needed to have a better life for the wife's unborn child. The problem was that they decided to rob small time stores in Brooklyn, New York to get the money to improve their surroundings. The year was 1924, and everything was changing. Women were getting their hair bobbed, and such women were being labeled as "flappers" (young women… Shares Infamous Crimes And Criminals, True Crime, General, Biography & Memoir

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Once upon a Crime Jimmy Cryans · 2012 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Criminals & Outlaws, True Crime, General, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Life Means Life Nick Appleyard · 2009 Shares Case studies, True Crime, General, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Nutcracker Shana Alexander · 1985 · ★ 4.1 · 453p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Nutcracker begins at the ballet but tells the story of a seemingly wholesome all-American family, whose tranquil life's surface erupted in shocking acts of avarice, theft and murder. The victim was Franklin Bradshaw, Mormon self-made millionaire, workaholic. The killer was Bradshaw's grandson, prep school student. The architect of the crime was said to be Frances Schreuder, Bradshaw's daughter,… Shares Case studies, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Severed John Gilmore · 1994 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The Black Dahlia murder hit post-War Los Angeles like a bombshell . . . an impenetrable mystery—the haunting crown jewel of LAPD’s “unsolved” murders. Even before her savage death, beautiful 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué, was known as the Black Dahlia—now a magnetic icon in American pop culture, an almost mythical symbol of noir Hollywood. In this expanded… Shares Case studies, True Crime

The good mothers Alex Perry · 2018 · ★ 3.9 · 342p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "An unprecedented look inside a ruthless and obscenely wealthy branch of the Italian Mafia and the electrifying story of the brave women who decided to fight back"-- Shares Criminals & Outlaws, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

Outlaws

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

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