ONCE UPON A CRIME... There’s nothing better than a gripping crime fiction novel to keep you turning the pages late into the night. Crime fiction has multiple sub-genres including detective fiction, courtroom drama, and legal thrillers, but all have elements of suspense and mystery. Whether you’re looking for a whodunit or a chilling murder mystery, we have the case for you!
Skippy Dies
This Is Not My Hat
Scrawl: a novel
The Bunker Diary
Complicit
The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid
Big Sky
The Blue Guitar
Black Widow
Splinter the Silence
Snap
His bloody project : documents relating to the case of Roderick Macrae, a historical thriller
In the Woods
I See You
The Sherlockian
Burial Rites
The Fix
The Flight Attendant
The Diary of a Rapist
XO
Assumption
Wounded
Curious Minds
Y Is for Yesterday
The Perfect Couple
You Will Pay
Mr. Mercedes
Lady in the Lake
Down the River unto the Sea
Blue
Apprentice in Death
Every Fifteen Minutes
The Secret History
The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt
Gods of Howl Mountain
The Child Finder
The Current
Devil's Breath
Beijing Payback
Those Who Knew
Like Lions
Lock Every Door
Goat Mountain
Macbeth
WARNING: Many of these books contain themes of a violent and disturbing nature... Sometimes the truth is more terrifying than fiction. True crime is a genre that consists of thousands of titles, television shows, films and even podcasts. October's display, I Can't Believe It's Not Fiction, only scratches the surface. Start reading about crimes so horrible or shocking that they almost can't be believed.
Assassination of a Saint: the plot to murder Óscar Romero and the quest to bring his killers to justice
Writing to save a life : the Louis Till file
The courtesan and the gigolo : the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
The Other Side of the River : a story of two towns, a death, and America's
Black edge : inside information, dirty money, and the quest to bring down the most wanted man on Wall Street
Bones : brothers, horses, cartels, and the borderland dream
Serpentine
Death sentence : the true story of Velma Barfield's life, crimes, and execution
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
Fatal Vision
Death in the air : the true story of a serial killer, the great London smog, and the strangling of a city
The trunk murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd : the truth about an American crime legend revealed at last
American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
Murder on Several Occasions
Lady killers : deadly women throughout history
Vulgar favors : Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the largest failed manhunt in U.S. history
Bitter blood: a true story of southern family pride, madness, and multiple murder
Preacher's girl : the life and crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore
Murder in the Bayou : who killed the women known as the Jeff Davis 8?
A murder over a girl : justice, gender, junior high
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso
Ripper : the secret Life of Walter Sickert
The inheritor's powder : a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science
I'll be gone in the dark : one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
Filthy Rich
City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris
Beneath a ruthless sun : a true story of violence, race, and justice lost and found
Till death us do part : a true murder mystery
The trial of Jack Ruby
Tricky Vic : the impossibly true story of the man who sold the Eiffel Tower
The 57 Bus
Master thieves : the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist
WARNING: Many of these books contain themes of a violent and disturbing nature... Sometimes the truth is more terrifying than fiction. True crime is a genre that consists of thousands of titles, television shows, films and even podcasts. October's display, I Can't Believe It's Not Fiction, only scratches the surface. Start reading about crimes so horrible or shocking that they almost can't be believed.