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Originally Posted by issybird

I liked the audiobook of A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story by Carol Ann Lee. Ellis, in case it needs saying, was the last woman executed in Britain.

I second this recommendation.

I also liked

• Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson
  
• Devil in the White City, The: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson
  
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective and The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
  
• The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
  
• The Trial of Lizzie Borden: A True Story by Cara Robertson