Books like The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
12 books with a reading profile close to The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
history, narrative
In the 1970s, Reverend Willie Maxwell was accused of murdering five family members for insurance payouts in rural Alabama.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
history, narrative
In 1860, the brutal murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House shocked mid-Victorian England.
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The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
history, narrative
Set in 1612 Lancashire, the story follows noblewoman Fleetwood Shuttleworth, who is eighteen years old and pregnant for the fourth time.
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The Address
by Fiona Davis
history, narrative
The Address follows two women connected by the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan across different centuries.
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
history, narrative
In 1630s Amsterdam, Sara de Vos becomes the first woman admitted to a professional painters' guild, struggling against poverty to create a haunting winter landscape.
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The Daughter of Time
history, narrative
Bedridden in a hospital with a broken leg, Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant grows restless and turns his investigative skills toward the historical mystery of King Richard III.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
history, narrative
For over a decade, a violent predator terrorized California through fifty sexual assaults and thirteen murders, vanishing without a trace.
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Zodiac
history, narrative
Robert Graysmith provides a chronological reconstruction of the unidentified serial killer who terrorized Northern California beginning in the late 1960s.
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The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo
history, narrative
In 1930s colonial Malaya, an eleven-year-old houseboy, Ren, is tasked with finding his dead master's missing finger and burying it with the body within forty-nine days.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
history, narrative
John Berendt’s narrative follows his relocation to Savannah, Georgia, where he documents the eccentric subcultures of the city’s high society and underground circles.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
history, narrative
Set in 1634, the narrative follows the Saardam, an East India Company merchant ship traveling from Batavia to Amsterdam.
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