Start with high-confidence murder & homicide books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Best Minds
Jonathan Rosen
Five Days at Memorial
Kirsten Potter, Sheri Fink
Conan Doyle for the Defense
Margalit Fox
Deadly Dose
Amanda Lamb
Love Lies
The Girl in the Leaves
Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard
Mindhunter
Richard M. Davidson, John E. Douglas
From the Mouth of the Monster
Robert Mladinich
Cruel Death
M. William Phelps
Mukiwa
Peter Godwin
Down to the Bone
Caitlin Rother, Christina Delaine
Death Scenes
Sean Tejaratchi, Katherine Dunn
If I Can't Have You
Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris
Tangled Vines
John Glatt
The Tragedy of True Crime
Will Damron, John J. Lennon
The Waltham Murders
Susan Clare Zalkind, Susan Zalkind
Above Suspicion
Joe Sharkey
Murder, Interrupted
James Patterson
Black Dahlia
William J Mann
College Girl, Missing
Shawn Cohen
