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The Lazarus Heist Summary
The Lazarus Heist
From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
by Geoff White 2022 304 pages
4.15
1.4K ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
Blind Injustice Summary
Blind Injustice
A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions
by Mark Godsey 2017 265 pages
4.39
327 ratings
True Crime
Social Justice
Crime
Hit Men Summary
Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
by Fredric Dannen 1990 432 pages
3.95
949 ratings
Music
History
Business
The Secret Barrister Summary
The Secret Barrister
Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
by The Secret Barrister 2018 385 pages
3.89
21.3K ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
The Profiler Summary
The Profiler
My Life Hunting Serial Killers and Psychopaths
by Pat Brown 2010 285 pages
3.08
1.7K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
Public Enemies Summary
Public Enemies
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
by Bryan Burrough 2004 640 pages
3.98
6.0K ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
The Book of Murder Summary
The Book of Murder
A Prosecutor's Journey Through Love and Death
by Matt Murphy 2024 320 pages
4.47
2.0K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Memoir
Arrest-Proof Yourself Summary
Arrest-Proof Yourself
An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How Even a Single Arrest Could Ruin Your Life, and What to Do If the Police Get in Your Face
by Dale C. Carson 2007 288 pages
3.77
318 ratings
Self Help
Law
Survival
Forensic Detective Summary
Forensic Detective
How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases
by Robert Mann 2006 272 pages
3.91
823 ratings
True Crime
Science
Crime
Exploding the Phone Summary
Exploding the Phone
The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley 2013 431 pages
4.20
1.7K ratings
History
Technology
True Crime
Manifesting Justice Summary
Manifesting Justice
Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights
by Valena E. Beety 2022 320 pages
4.33
117 ratings
Politics
History
True Crime
Some People Need Killing Summary
Some People Need Killing
A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by Patricia Evangelista 2023 428 pages
4.19
8.0K ratings
History
Memoir
Politics
Nowhere Girl Summary
Nowhere Girl
A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood
by Cheryl Diamond 2021 320 pages
4.05
8.2K ratings
Memoir
True Crime
Book Club
Cops' True Stories of the Paranormal Summary
Cops' True Stories of the Paranormal
Ghosts, UFOs, and Other Shivers
by Loren W. Christensen 2016 208 pages
3.89
746 ratings
Paranormal
True Crime
Ghosts
Breaking the Silence Summary
Breaking the Silence
Two Little Boys, Lost and Unloved. One Foster Carer Determined to Make a Difference
by Casey Watson 2013 304 pages
4.42
1.1K ratings
Fostering
Abuse
True Crime
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief Summary
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief
by Bill Mason 2004 384 pages
3.86
1.0K ratings
Biography
True Crime
Crime
Wilmington's Lie Summary
Wilmington's Lie
The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino 2020 426 pages
4.43
4.0K ratings
History
Politics
Race
The Natashas Summary
The Natashas
Inside the New Global Sex Trade
by Victor Malarek 2011 320 pages
3.90
951 ratings
True Crime
Feminism
Sociology
The Black Hand Summary
The Black Hand
The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
by Chris Blatchford 2008 352 pages
4.07
2.0K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Biography
The Other Side of Prospect Summary
The Other Side of Prospect
A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City
by Nicholas Dawidoff 2022 464 pages
4.43
415 ratings
History
True Crime
Politics
The Idaho Four Summary
The Idaho Four
An American Tragedy
by James Patterson 2025 448 pages
4.32
5.7K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery Thriller
Silent No More Summary
Silent No More
Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky
by Aaron Fisher 2012 218 pages
4.09
771 ratings
True Crime
Memoir
Crime
Empire of Pain Summary
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 535 pages
4.54
128.9K ratings
History
Biography
True Crime
The Spider Network Summary
The Spider Network
The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
by David Enrich 2017 528 pages
4.07
6.2K ratings
Business
Finance
History
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries Summary
The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries
by Colin Wilson 1984 320 pages
3.66
254 ratings
Paranormal
Mystery
History
Traces Summary
Traces
The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator
by Patricia Wiltshire 2019 312 pages
3.60
2.9K ratings
True Crime
Science
Memoir
Behind the Door Summary
Behind the Door
The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel
by Amy Price 2023 240 pages
3.50
1.0K ratings
True Crime
Memoir
History
How to Cheat at Everything Summary
How to Cheat at Everything
A Con Man Reveals the Secrets of the Esoteric Trade of Cheating, Scams, and Hustles
by Simon Lovell 2006 456 pages
3.62
385 ratings
Crime
Magic
Research
Russian Roulette Summary
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by Michael Isikoff 2018 352 pages
4.20
6.6K ratings
Politics
History
Russia
Wyatt Earp Summary
Wyatt Earp
The Life Behind the Legend
by Casey Tefertiller 1997 416 pages
4.00
777 ratings
History
Biography
Westerns
You Can't Lie to Me Summary
You Can't Lie to Me
by Janine Driver 2012 288 pages
3.81
627 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Forensics for Dummies Summary
Forensics for Dummies
by D.P. Lyle 2004 356 pages
4.07
557 ratings
True Crime
Reference
Crime
A Criminal History of Mankind Summary
A Criminal History of Mankind
by Colin Wilson 1985 815 pages
3.90
763 ratings
History
Psychology
True Crime
The Betrayal of Anne Frank Summary
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A Cold Case Investigation
by Rosemary Sullivan 2022 400 pages
3.83
14.3K ratings
History
True Crime
Holocaust
Hype Summary
Hype
How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following
by Gabrielle Bluestone 2021 352 pages
3.33
1.2K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Sociology
How to Solve a Crime Summary
How to Solve a Crime
Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics
by Angela Gallop 2022 272 pages
3.63
252 ratings
Science
True Crime
Crime
Under the Trestle Summary
Under the Trestle
The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia’s First “No Body” Murder Trial.
by Ron Peterson Jr. 2018 334 pages
4.30
1.9K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
A Life of Crime Summary
A Life of Crime
The Memoirs of a High Court Judge
by Harry Ognall 2017 162 pages
3.72
808 ratings
Law
Biography
True Crime
Four Shots in the Night Summary
Four Shots in the Night
A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
by Henry Hemming 2024 368 pages
4.28
947 ratings
History
Ireland
True Crime
The Best New True Crime Stories Summary
The Best New True Crime Stories
Small Towns: Small Towns
by Mitzi Szereto 2020 256 pages
3.32
290 ratings
True Crime
Crime
Horror
The Devil's Playbook Summary
The Devil's Playbook
Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation
by Lauren Etter 2021 495 pages
4.15
516 ratings
Business
Health
Science
Prophet's Prey Summary
Prophet's Prey
My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints
by Sam Brower 2011 336 pages
3.98
6.9K ratings
True Crime
Religion
Cults
The Plane That Wasn't There Summary
The Plane That Wasn't There
Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
by Jeff Wise 2015 95 pages
3.56
1.6K ratings
History
True Crime
Aviation
Stealing Your Life Summary
Stealing Your Life
The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
by Frank W. Abagnale 2007 256 pages
3.69
289 ratings
Business
Crime
True Crime
Zero Fail Summary
Zero Fail
The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service
by Carol Leonnig 2021 560 pages
4.23
9.7K ratings
History
Politics
American History
Enemy of All Mankind Summary
Enemy of All Mankind
A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
by Steven Johnson 2020 286 pages
3.89
4.2K ratings
History
Pirates
True Crime
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much Summary
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
by Allison Hoover Bartlett 2009 274 pages
3.44
13.6K ratings
Books About Books
True Crime
Biography
When a Killer Calls Summary
When a Killer Calls
by John E. Douglas 2022 336 pages
4.03
5.8K ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
The Science of Murder Summary
The Science of Murder
The Forensics of Agatha Christie
by Carla Valentine 2021 432 pages
3.83
2.3K ratings
True Crime
Science
History
Rogue Trader Summary
Rogue Trader
by Nick Leeson 1996 365 pages
3.93
1.3K ratings
Finance
Biography
Business
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