The Best True Crime Books 2025

1. Slave Girls (Other) 9780312958701

ISBN: 9780312958701 ISBN10: 0312958706 Contributors: Clarkson, Wensley,

Slave Girls (Other) 9780312958701

2. Murder in Greenwich

On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered with a golf club on the grounds of her family's exclusive Greenwich, Connecticut, home. The club belonged to the Skakel family. Thomas and Michael Skakel, nephews of Ethel Kennedy, are brothers who had been with Martha the night she died. When police started looking closely at the boys' involvement, the Skakel family, wealthy and prominent and related to the Kennedys, refused to cooperate. Here, investigator Mark Fuhrman analyzes this still unsolved murder and uncovers explosive new information. Photo insert.

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3. Shot in the Heart, (Paperback)

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - A murder tale \"from inside the house where murder is born.\" Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged. Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a black sheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates his story \"from inside the house where murder is born... a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave.\" Shot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin.

Shot in the Heart, (Paperback) Author: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN: 9780385478007 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 1995-08-01 Page Count: 416

4. Blood Legacy 9780451406514

ISBN: 9780451406514 ISBN10: 0451406516 Contributors: Reitman, Judith,

Blood Legacy

5. Do or Die, (Paperback)

Do or Die is the first insider account of teenage gangs--the lives, loves, and battles of children who kill--from the only journalist ever allowed inside this closed and dangerous world. This is no West Side Story. Welcome to a world where teenagers wear colostomy bags and have scrapbooks filled with funeral invitations; where a young man, after being shot in the chest, drives himself to the hospital; where another youngster, caught in crossfire, uses his girlfriend as a human shield; where teenage gangsters are kidnapped, tortured, and held for six-figure ransoms; where kids hum the latest movie's theme music while killing people. It's a world of clickheads, sherms, bangers, ballers, and mummyheads; a world where the strongest feelings of family come from other gang members; a world where the most potent feelings of self-worth come from murder.

Do or Die, (Paperback) Author: Harper Perennial ISBN: 9780060922917 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2019-03-21 Page Count: 304

6. A Wealth of Evil : The True Story of the Murder of Martha Moxley in America's Richest Community 9780446607322

ISBN: 9780446607322 ISBN10: 0446607320 Contributors: Dumas, Timothy,

Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was found murdered on Halloween in 1975 in the exclusive Greenwich, Connecticut neighborhood in which she lived. Attention quickly focused on two young nephews of Robert Kennedy who lived across the street from the Moxleys. But no arrests were ever made, and nearly a quarter of a century later the agonizing question: Who killed Martha Moxley? still hovers over the luxurious estates and manicured lawns of the wealthiest town in America. Now, over 20 years later, journalist Timothy Dumas provides an in-depth, riveting account of his four-year investigation.