True-crime books, featuring gaudy covers and blurbs touting “ravenous sexual violation” and the like, regularly top best-seller lists and somehow “have a grip on the American imagination ...

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True-crime books provide accounts of terrifying stories. Many of the books in this guide provide firsthand accounts of famous cases.

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New book offers illustrated history, from first known Neanderthal murder to legendary con men to the origins of Eastern organized crime.

These are the best true crime books to read that cover every case from Ted Bundy to the Zodiac Killer.

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Although Ann Rule’s chosen topic was serial killers, many true crime books don’t cover murder or, in some cases, cover a broader range of criminal behavior.