Studyblr with Knives Winter Reading Challenge - hosted by pipedreambrekker

true crime or thriller
Time for something darker:
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

352 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction business health true crime informative tense medium-paced
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion

Tori Telfer

352 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative fast-paced
Nobody's Child: Poverty, Justice, and the Insanity Defense in America by Susan Nordin Vinocour

Nobody's Child: Poverty, Justice, and the Insanity Defense in America

Susan Nordin Vinocour

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction crime psychology true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System that Failed Toronto's Queer Community by Justin Ling

Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System that Failed Toronto's Queer Community

Justin Ling

304 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics true crime challenging dark informative slow-paced
Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue by Peter Everett

Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir true crime dark informative slow-paced
Wasting Police Time: The Crazy World of the War on Crime by David Copperfield

Wasting Police Time: The Crazy World of the War on Crime

David Copperfield

256 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction crime true crime funny slow-paced
Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

Whose Body?

Lord Peter Wimsey #1

Dorothy L. Sayers

5 hours, 52 minutes • first pub 1923 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

480 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 1 by Tetsuichiro Miyaki, Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba

Death Note: Black Edition, Vol. 1

Death Note #01-02

Tetsuichiro Miyaki, Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba

392 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction fantasy manga dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

470 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ thriller young adult dark mysterious tense fast-paced