Guide No Longer Updated
As of July 2023 this guide—started during the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic—is no longer being actively updated or maintained. For an up-to-date listing of true crime eBooks (and audio books) please see the True Crime section in OverDrive/Libby.
True Crime
Books are listed by author's surname.
Death on the Victorian Beat: The Shocking Story of Police Deaths by ISBN: 9781526705921Publication Date: 2018
Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781488059124Publication Date: 2021
Madness, Murder and Mayhem: Criminal Insanity in Victorian and Edwardian Britain by ISBN: 9781526734556Publication Date: 2018
Oklahoma's Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him by ISBN: 9781496200907Publication Date: 2019
The Setup: A True Story of Dirty Cops, Soccer Moms, and Reality TV by ISBN: 9781940363318Publication Date: 2015
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts: A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks by ISBN: 9781526707307Publication Date: 2018
The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale by ISBN: 9781944648022Publication Date: 2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780385534253Publication Date: 2017
The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History by ISBN: 9780762778232Publication Date: 2013
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News by ISBN: 9781635577303Publication Date: 2021
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by ISBN: 9781640092129Publication Date: 2019
The Last Train Robber: The Life and Times of Willis Newton by ISBN: 9781493046089Publication Date: 2020
Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer by ISBN: 9781551527468Publication Date: 2019
Tobacco Wars: Inside the Spy Games and Dirty Tricks of Southern Africa's Cigarette Trade by ISBN: 9780624081678Publication Date: 2019
Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman by ISBN: 9781613739792Publication Date: 2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062916310Publication Date: 2019
Safecracker: A Chronicle of the Coolest Job in the World by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781493058525Publication Date: 2021
Lawbreaking Ladies: 50 Tales of Daring, Defiant, and Dangerous Women from History by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781982147099Publication Date: 2021
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062918017Publication Date: 2019
Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by ISBN: 9781640091894Publication Date: 2019
Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780369734235Publication Date: 2023
The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings That Stunned the Nation by ISBN: 9781946885265Publication Date: 2018
Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9781787384460Publication Date: 2021
In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators by ISBN: 9781944648985Publication Date: 2018
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by ISBN: 9781328663818Publication Date: 2019
The Third Degree: The Triple Murder That Shook Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice by ISBN: 9781612349947Publication Date: 2018
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking by ISBN: 9781640093287Publication Date: 2020
The Murder That Defeated Whitechapel's Sherlock Holmes: At Mrs Ridgley's Corner by ISBN: 9781526733856Publication Date: 2018
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062956040Publication Date: 2021
Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred Racing's Most Famous Cold Case by ISBN: 9780813176239Publication Date: 2018
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by ISBN: 9781982114022Publication Date: 2021
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Call Number: OverDriveISBN: 9780062899798Publication Date: 2022
Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global by ISBN: 9781789142853Publication Date: 2020
