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Another vote for In Cold Blood; it doesn't get any better than that. I also like Ann Rule, especially Small Sacrifices (Diane Downs case). Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision (Jeffrey MacDonald case) is a terrific book; I also liked his Blind Faith (Rob Marshall case).
Another pretty good author in the genre is Kathryn Casey. Gregg Olsen used to write true crime before turning to fiction. Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher is about a famous child murder in Victorian times. A few others that come to mind are Peter Graham's Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century, Douglas Starr's The Killer of Little Shepherds, and Vincent Bugliosi's Helter Skelter.
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