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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

by Curt Gentry & Vincent Bugliosi

Other books by Curt Gentry and Vincent Bugliosi

Four Days in November (aka Parkland) by Vincent Bugliosi

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi

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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

Killer in the Shadows: The Monstrous Crimes of Robert Napper by Laurence Alison & Marie Eyre

Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial by Maggie Nelson

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Four Days in November (aka Parkland)
by Vincent Bugliosi

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
by Kate Summerscale

All The President’s Men
by Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein

Killer in the Shadows: The Monstrous Crimes of Robert Napper
by Laurence Alison & Marie Eyre

Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann

The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson

The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
by Maggie Nelson