- The feather thief, beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century, Kirk Wallace Johnson
- The library book, Susan Orlean
- The man who played with fire, Stieg Larsson's lost files and the hunt for an assassin, Jan Stocklassa ; translated by Tara F. Chace
- Master thieves, the Boston gangsters who pulled off the world's greatest art heist, Stephen Kurkjian
- Killers of the flower moon, the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI, David Grann
- The defense lawyer, the Barry Slotnick story, James Patterson and Benjamin Wallace
- The third rainbow girl, the long life of a double murder in Appalachia, Emma Copley Eisenberg
- I'll be gone in the dark, one woman's obsessive search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara ; with an introduction by Gillian Flynn and an afterword by Patton Oswalt
- Killer triggers, Joe Kenda
- The last book on the left, stories of murder and mayhem from history's most notorious serial killers, Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski ; with illustrations by Tom Neely
- A murder over a girl, justice, gender, junior high, Ken Corbett
- The other Dr. Gilmer, two men, a murder, and an unlikely fight for justice, Benjamin Gilmer
- American predator, the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century, Maureen Callahan
- Murder thy neighbor, true-crime thrillers, James Patterson
- Hearts of darkness, serial killers, the behavioral science unit, and my life as a woman in the FBI, Jana Monroe ; foreword by Joe Navarro
- The falcon thief, a true tale of adventure, treachery, and the hunt for the perfect bird, Joshua Hammer
- Writing to save a life, the Louis Till file, John Edgar Wideman
- Till murder do us part, James Patterson
- City of devils, the two men who ruled the underworld of old Shanghai, Paul French
- The thieves of Threadneedle Street, the incredible true story of the American forgers who nearly broke the Bank of England, Nicholas Booth
- Bone deep, untangling the Betsy Faria murder case, Charles Bosworth, Jr. & Joel J. Schwartz
- The Irish assassins, conspiracy, revenge, and the Phoenix Park murders that stunned Victorian England, Julie Kavanagh
- All-American murder, the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row, James Patterson & Alex Abramovich with Mike Harvkey
- Unspeakable acts, true tales of crime, murder, deceit, and obsession, [edited by] Sarah Weinman ; [with an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe.]
- Where the bodies were buried, Whitey Bulger and the world that made him, T. J. English
- My friend Anna, the true story of a fake heiress, Rachel DeLoache Williams
- The girl on the velvet swing, sex, murder, and madness at the dawn of the twentieth century, Simon Baatz
- The real Lolita, the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world, Sarah Weinman
- Filthy rich, [a powerful billionaire, the sex scandal that undid him, and all the justice that money can buy : the shocking true story of Jeffrey Epstein], James Patterson, John Connolly with Tim Malloy
- Furious hours, murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee, Casey Cep
- How to catch a killer, hunting and capturing the world's most notorious serial killers, Katherine Ramsland, PhD
- The fact of a body, a murder and a memoir, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
- The cadaver king and the country dentist, a true story of injustice in the American South, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington ; foreword by John Grisham
- Murder thy neighbor, true-crime thrillers, James Patterson
- Say nothing, a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
- The notorious Reno Gang, the wild story of the West's first brotherhood of thieves, assassins, and train robbers, Rachel Dickinson
- My brother the killer, a family story, Alix Sharkey
- Gator country, deception, danger, and alligators in the Everglades, Rebecca Renner
- The wicked boy, the mystery of a Victorian child murderer, Kate Summerscale
- The case of the vanishing blonde, and other true crime stories, Mark Bowden
- The feather thief, beauty, obsession and the natural history heist of the century, Kirk Wallace Johnson
- The fourth man, the hunt for a KGB spy at the top of the CIA and the rise of Putin's Russia, Robert Baer
- All-American murder, the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row, James Patterson & Alex Abramovich with Mike Harvkey
- We keep the dead close, a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence, Becky Cooper
- Murder beyond the grave, true-crime thrillers, James Patterson
- Scoundrel, how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free, Sarah Weinman
- Diamond Doris, the true story of the world's most notorious jewel thief, Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart
- The midnight assassin, panic, scandal, and the hunt for America's first serial killer, Skip Hollandsworth
- The last stone, Mark Bowden
- Last call, a true story of love, lust, and murder in queer New York, Elon Green